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HIDING YOUR RC GEAR

fter spending hundreds of hours building a giant-scale airplane, modelers can easily invest in many more hours adding scale details. The amount of detail can include just an instrument panel and a pilot figure or a completely detailed replica of the full-size counterpart. Scale competitions like the Top Gun Invitational are great opportunities to see firsthand beautiful models that include panel lines, rivets, weathering, fully concealed control linkages, hidden switches, finely detailed cockpits, and much more! Such detail serves as a source of inspiration, which brings us to my current project.

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