Lead shot can be tucked in just about any corner of a model. 

Ny father used to load his own bullets for competition shooting so he used just the bullets sometimes.

Myself I use BB's.  The other thing that is nice is to pick up a small digital scale.  I got one from Harbor Freight for about $7.  I put a lid on it and zero it out and then I can measure the correct amount of BB's.  If you factor in the type of glue you are using you can sometimes go a little lighter.....  But that let's you know just how much material you have to bury....

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For small areas, small lead shot works well. For large areas, steel bolts and washers work, and are cheaper. Lead solder is good, and fits well into fuselage spaces.

Mostly, though, I use flat strips of aquarium 'lead'. It isn't actually lead, but a dense metal alloy which is used to weight down plants and decorations in fish tanks. It cen be cut to size with scissors or a scalpel, and superglued in place. Specially good for glazed-nose aircraft and helicopters, since it can be tucked beneath the cockpit floor.

Cheers,

Chris.

First, I'd check with Terry Dean (nightiemission@aol,com) to see if he has a weight set for your particular application.

Try thinning the plastic aft of the main gear.  A rotary grinder and some careful grinding can cut down on the amount of weight you need in the nose.  Really thick stabilizers and positionable flaps can sometimes be drilled out.  Full engines can be cut down to just exhaust pipes and compressor detail, with the exhaust pipe being ground down paper thin.

There's usually a triangular void between the nose gear well and fuselage sides.  Some careful grinding here will make room for more weights.  Same for the area above, below and around the cockpit.  Sometimes, its necessary to replace cockpit floor and bulkheads with lead sheet, and to pack the area forward of the instrument panel with weight.  Radomes are prime candidates for weight-packing, and you can pack the nose of drop tanks (and, occasionally, bombs).

Still can't find room for enough weight?  Use the titanium powder used to balance golf clubs, available at your local golf pro shop.  Mix it with epoxy and fill any available void forward of the main gear (the farther forward, the better)

The last, and least exotic, solution is to mount the aircraft on a base and secure the whells so it CAN'T tail-squat.

Phil - just sharing a few of the soultions I've used

Once I figure out how much weight is needed I put the required number of fishing weights in an old spray paint top, squirt in the 2 part, 5 minute epoxy and stir it all together. I then place the weights in the fuselage halves, engine nacelles, or wherever. There is enough glue to hold the weights to the plastic parts or to each other. The tricky part is figuring the amount of weight needed. I assemble the main parts of the kit and the landing gear together with masking tape and balance the weights in the nose and cavities until it tips forward.

Ken

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