Could some kind soul help me out here? I've been modeling for more than thirty years, some of it, believe it or not, professionally. But I am terrified of tackling natural wood subjects, such as WW I props and cockpit floors and instrument panels. I avoid these subjects, which I love otherwise, just because of the wooden parts. Now, I'm faced with reviewing a WW I airplane, and I can't go back to my masters and say, "Sorry, I'm not good enough to paint the prop." It's on a Morane-Saulnier Type N, the monoplane with that huge spinner, and the prop, naturally, gets a lot of attention on this plane.
I would be most grateful for any tips.
And this makes me wonder: Why has no one ever come out with a line of scale wooden props. I mean, we now have prepainted photoetched parts, we have hollow exhaust pipes in the smallest scales, yet no realistic AM props.
One more question: When (I forget the name of the firm that made them) stopped making extruded strut stock, which I loved for it's handiness and lack of seams, there were rumors that someone else would pick up the slack. Does anyone make strut stock nowadays?
Thanks,
Tom