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The Weathering Aircraft - Engines

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The Weathering Aircraft might not make grammatical sense to a native English speaker, but the contents certainly do.  It is a quarterly publication from the modern kings of weathering AMMO, demonstrating the techniques available to the modern modeller, whilst leveraging their products into the frame, and who can blame them?  The edition concerns engines, and details a number of different techniques for creating realistic engines in differing states of repair, from in-service to dilapidated, to ripped out of the airframe and lying on the ground.  It follows the usual style of AMMO publications, breaking down into a number of articles by different modellers, dealing with the different types of installation in turn.  The text is accompanied by copious in-progress photographs with descriptive captions to fill the gaps, and the various products used shown for your ease.  Of course the majority are AMMO products as you'd expect, but you can easily substitute whatever you have in your drawer for similar effects.  The techniques are the important aspect, and as already mentioned recently, it's just a shame we can't purchase talent in bottles to help us improve effortlessly.

 

The articles are as follows:

 

  • ME.262 Jumo 004B – The chief editor builds and paints a highly detailed jet engine to sling under the wing of a Schwalbe.
  • Salmson – A WWI radial engine is built and painted, showing the different finishes used.
  • Nakajima HA-109 – a 14-cylinder Radial engine from the WWII Japanese fighter Ki-44 is painted and fitted within the cowling.
  • UH-1Y – A Kitty hawk Venom is built with a detailed engine visible within the inspection bay of the latest Huey variant.
  • General Electic J79-GE-19 – The guts of this engine are exposed via the belly bay, built from a resin upgrade set.
  • Rolls-Royce Merlin 60 – Hyper-detailing and painting the block from a Tamiya 1:32 Spitfire.
  • Nakajima Sakae 12 – A well-worn engine from a Zero 21 is built into the fuselage of Tamiya's kit.
  • F-105 Thunderchief – A trolley-borne engine from this Cold War warrior is built and painted, demonstrating heat discolouration techniques.
  • Mercedes D.IIIa – Using the guts of a WNW Fokker D.VII and a 3D upgrade from Aviattic, the Mercedes lump is built up in a well-maintained museum quality model.
  • Mercedes D.III – as a contrast a Roden engine is built as a heap of junk on a well-rusted trestle.
  • Pratt & Whitney PW2800 – built as a vignette of a crash scene, the engine is depicted ripped out of the airframe with a damaged and bent prop still attached.
  • Radon-Klzer 602C – What?  Anakin's pod-racer from The Phantom Menace (oh, that film) is given a spectacular paint job after some sympathetic detail upgrades.

 

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The index at the front is a little out of kilter with the contents, but at least it proves I read it!  The mix of content and build styles hits a good balance between shiny and shot-at, and should give any budding engine builder some useful tips on how to improve their engine building work.  As usual, the magazine isn't over-burdened with adverts, and has a couple of young attractive ladies dotted through the pages in case you get tired of looking at models and like that sort of thing.

 

A good read with plenty to offer even the experienced modeller.


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