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p for the count: George Bredehoft of Volare Products (www.volare
products.com) has been steadily building his freeflight product line since taking up Shorty’s Basement a while back. George also acquired the rights to con- tinue production of the late Dave Rees’ Scalewinder 10:1 winder, without a doubt one of the most well-respected and best known winders to be found among today’s rubber modelers. Now he’s producing a very useful accessory for it: the Rees Winder Counter, designed to be mounted to past and present Scalewinders.
While mounting digital counters to Scalewinders is nothing new, this is a pur- pose-built product and the easiest I’ve seen by far to install, requiring no wiring or sol- dering. You simply glue a rare-earth magnet to the main gear as per the instructions, then slip the plywood carriage/counter as- sembly into position. The plastic counter body can be removed from the plywood car- riage for battery replacement.
It’s really pretty slick, comes fully assem- bled (you supply the Rees winder—wait, you don’t have one? Go no further...) and at $30 is a bargain. Get one for yourself, and expe- rience the freedom that not having to keep mental track of your count allows. Imagine the pleasure of chatting with your buddies while you crank in the turns, cracking jokes, interrupting the poor guys around you who are trying to remember if they were at 136...or was it 163? Just don’t get too dis- tracted. If you do, an added bonus of the Rees Winder Counter is that it will record what your count was when you should have stopped, but didn’t.
A superior proposition
As if the above is not enough, George has also recently come to an agreement to pur- chase the Superior Props business from Bob Gourdon. This is great news for fans of qual- ity wood props! Superior Props has a well earned reputation in our hobby, and it now appears we will continue to be able to enjoy
PHOTO: SCOTT RICHLIN
Up in the air, Junior Birdpersons! The young participants in Scott Richlin’s after-school freeflight modeling class in Virginia line up to display their Delta Darts. As of this writing, the kids had moved on to successfully building their own Dartsfrom scratch, learning to draft a basic plan and create building templates.
them for years to come. Three cheers for Bob for carrying Superior on so well for so long— well done! And for George and his dad for stepping in to keep the business rolling. George and his dad plan to train with Bob to get the hang of the manufacturing process before moving the entire Superior shop and all its materials from Louisiana to Ohio. Once there George’s dad, a retired tool and die maker and cabinetmaker, will produce the Superior Prop line for Volare Products, to be sold through Shorty’s Basement and other vendors.
George will learn the process as well, so that when he retires in a few years he’ll have something to do to keep himself out of trou- ble. The goal is to have product available for the modeling community right about the time you’ll be reading this—in January 2014, or shortly thereafter. Check out the Volare website address listed above for more information.
We will Beriev you
Da, I know we just featured pictures of Pat Murray’s Beriev BE-12 in the November
issue. And I know we just showed some shots of a wonderful twin rubber model by Mike Stuart last month. But I couldn’t let this most recent show-and-tell opportunity pass by. Mike sent me photos of his Beriev BE-12 project recently—must be something in the water—and I thought the contrasting construction methods would be of interest. Pictures being worth a thousand words, I’ll leave it to you to investigate the differences with your magnifying glasses. One thing I will mention which is not revealed by the pic- tures is that Pat opted to use pink foam for much of the nose and tail cone structure, whereas Mike has chosen to go mostly with balsa and built-up structure. I don’t know about you, but I’m one fellow who would love to see these two top-notch modelers go head to head with their big Soviet Chaykas at the FAC Nats next year. How about it, guys?
Hung-Aereon uprising Meanwhile, back at EasyBuilt Models, Dave Niedzielski has recently released a new laser-cut kit of the Hung-Aereon, a re- markable design by the late great Dave
PHOTO: MIKE STUART
PHOTO: PAT MURRAY Mike Stuart and Pat Murray may be modeling the same plane, but they have very different ideas—Mike’s (above left); Pat’s (above right)—about how to build it! 32 JANUARY 2014
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