Building and Displaying Scale Model Aircraft with Paul Boyer

How to make a high-quality display of any model aircraft. Teaches basic aircraft modeling preparation and assembly techniques. Includes suggestions for painting and decaling with special attention to creative displays and mounting tips for finished projects.

Author: Paul Boyer
Perfect-bound softcover; 8 1/4 x 10 3/4; 88 pages; 110 black and white photos; 50 color photos; ISBN: 9780890242377

Paul Boyer has built cars, tanks, ships, and his favorite, aircraft. Paul served in the U.S. Air Force as a still photographer and pulled a tour of duty in Vietnam and Thailand.

3 Acknowledgments
3 Meet Paul Boyer
4 Prologue

7 What you'll need to make model airplanes
13 Your first model airplane
18 A hellcat out of the box
29 Taming a wildcat
38 Rigging a classic
43 Building a vacuum-formed kit
53 Revolutionary resin
61 Converting a "Hun"
69 Lights, camouflage, action!
79 On display

87 Epilogue
87 Sources