I have a question...

[RunwayOneSixRight]

Okay, I'm just curious for all you airplane model makers... When building a model what would you say is the easiest part of the aircraft and what is the hardest?

For me the hardest parts are always the wings and trying to keep weight on the them when they're drying (to keep them straight and true). And the easiest is probably the display stand (if the model comes with one.)

I'm curious to know!

-RunwayOneSixRight

[Tim Crowe]

I don't think of things being easy or hard on building aircraft.

Personally think of things like leading edges and wing tips being more critical to build.

Saying that, have found you need to be far more accurate with bulding a plane than a tank.

Tim

[Raja Ahsani]

I always have trouble in building wing roots, especially on spitfires...

[constellation]

I agree with Raja...the wings and specially the union with the fuselage and theis fairings are always a trouble

[rockpaperscissor]

To me, the hardest part is trying to avoid that annoying twist/bend in the fuselage commonly called a banana.

[Vermin_King]

For me, the part I hold my breath on is when I put the wings onto the fuselage. Everything can look great up to that point, only to find that the wings want to go off at screwy angles. Over time this problem is going away. My latest models are 'acceptable', but some of my earlier builds look like they were wrecked one time too many. I generally find that when I get up to that point in the build, I generally procrastinate a couple days, say a prayer, cross my fingers and hold my breath while I make the attachment.

[nikischutt]

Wing fillets and fairings, always my worst! They have a tendency to be curved in multiple orientations.

Niki

[flightsimmer2012]

the wings always the damn wings))

[howard burnside]

GLUE, you need time to get position right, I use Aleene's TURBO or QUICK DRY tacky glue, dubling internal formers helps stop them flexing, preglue wing ribs in place on lower side of wing helps, fold should put them enough foward.

[scissorsandplanes]

My problem usually is in the gluing of the fuselage parts.

I sort of need two pair of hands to keep the longer tubular parts curved while trying to grab something to put in the inside of the tube so that I can compress the glue.

With small fuselage parts I should need very small hands or fingertips to get a hold of them.

On top of that I work on a slanted surface and these round things (all things for that matters) tend to roll (or slide) down on the most critical moments. (Or somebody rings the doorbell)

S&P