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Tips for building 1:72 Pegasus biplanes?


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A good dose of modelling skills. Fit, measure and fiddle twice, (or more...), cut/glue once. Get a good set of plans, if possible and look at using some form of jig, (especially to help align the wings). Plus elbow grease, putty and wet and dry, all in large denominations of quantity, (would suggest AA).

 

Apart from that, enjoy! they are fun.

 

Christian, exiled to africa

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You might find you get a much better result if you tried one now, though. I thoroughly messed up a Merlin DH9a (and a Pegasus Snipe) in about 1990; after a further 25 years of practice, I built another Ninak and it turned out quite well.

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I've done a couple. I think a decent set of plans are essential. The kit parts will all fit, but you'll need some decent drawings to make sure you're setting the correct angles of the wings etc. It's also worth drilling out the ends of butt-jointed parts and inserting brass rod to make some location 'pins'. It will reinforce things greatly.

 

Will

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