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Very gently, his sleeve was rolled up so that the wound
might be dressed. But when no wound could be found,
he had felt the bullet but it only just touched him, not
causing any wound at all.
A big howl with laughter went out. That pilot tried to
hide himself for a day or two until the incident was Add Realistic Radio Antenna Wires to
forgotten. your Model Aircraft
Creating the radio antenna wires is essential when
building model airplanes. In most cases, this is an
added detail which is not included in the scale
model kit. Model aircraft antenna wires are
commonly built from scratch using one of several
techniques. This tutorial will examine how to create
this feature using stretched sprue.
Home of FSX / FS2004 / Prepar3D / X- Sprue is the excess material that is used to hold the
Plane Freeware parts of the scale model kit together. For this
tutorial, you will need to cut a straight piece of
Over the years FlightSim.Com has amassed a collection of sprue about 4 to 5 inches long.
over 200,000 files for Microsoft Flight Simulator, X-Plane Light a candle and hold your piece of sprue at about
and Prepar3D. All files from the collection are freely
½ to 1½ inches away from the flame. Holding the
downloadable by anyone who wants them. Full access to
plastic at each end between your fingers will allow
all file downloads is available from the blue menu bar on you to rotate the sprue back and forth while it is
any page of the site, under "File Library". We have a
being heated. This rotation will allow the heat to
variety of ways of searching for files, so if it's out there,
distribute evenly along the sprue instead of
you should be able to find it.
concentrating it on one spot. After a few seconds
Check out today's new additions to the file library here: you will notice that the sprue will become glossy, it
Today's New Files will soften and start to sag. Be cautions to not let
FSX new files only the sprue melt completely.
FS2004 new files only
At this point, you can move the sprue away from
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the candle flame and begin to stretch it. At a careful
X-Plane new files only steady pace, expand the plastic until you have the
Complete aircraft packages
desired thickness. This part of the process may take
Base aircraft packages
some practice. Stretching the sprue too fast will
AI aircraft cause it to be excessively thin and weak. It may
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even snap. However, if you extend the sprue too
Hot Files slowly, the plastic may harden prematurely. At
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which point, you will no longer be able to stretch
Searching For Files
the sprue, and it may be too short and thick for a
When using the Internet search is a basic skill that proper antenna. Your goal is to have a nice, thin
everyone needs. We've created a customized search piece of sprue, perfect for the model aircraft
engine specifically for finding flight simulator downloads. antenna.
For the most part, using it should be intuitive, but if
Allow about 10 minutes for the sprue to harden
you really want to learn fully how it works, then please completely. Then, cut off the length required for
read this tutorial.
the model aircraft. You can use super glue (e. g.
Cyanoacrylate) for attaching each end to your scale
model kit assembly.
