“COTTAGE” FOR NUTRIA

Becoming a pensioner, was engaged in the breeding of the nutria (swamp beavers, or coypu) and saw how it is a profitable business. With the low maintenance costs of these herbivores and also very unpretentious animals not only get delicious meat (an average of 2-3 kg of each species), no way inferior to the rabbit, nutritional value and dietary properties, but also (most importantly!) valuable fur, on the strength approaching a mink or a Fox, and wear exceeding ten “fur” of the Bunny.

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“AEROBI-100”

For the study of near-earth space in the United States since 1948, began to build rockets “Aerobe”. To date released a large number of their modifications. A two-stage rocket “Aerobi 100”, the description and drawings which we published, are very useful for modeling. It is easy to manufacture and available to the modelers for the second year of study. Its flight is quite stable and shows good sports results. It is possible to participate in competitions of any rank.

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LADA REVOLUTION

LADA REVOLUTIONThis car was first shown at the Moscow international motor show in August 2003. Race car was the prototype of the new monoclass — National racing series AVTOVAZ, designed for circle racing machines of the same model, which virtually do not compete designers and engineers, and racers.

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Correspondence duel

Correspondence duelThe need to cover ground-based air defense armored and mechanized units in the attack, and on the march from air attacks became apparent during the Second World War. Almost in all the belligerent countries, different patterns of anti-aircraft self-propelled units were created (ZSU). Unfortunately, we must admit that in this area the Soviet Union was not among the leaders. During the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union failed to create effective anti-aircraft self-propelled units. The very same mass of ZSU Red Army became an American M17 previously shipped with the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease.

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Boatmen on the pond

Boatmen on the pondChassis model paddle steamer. Model river paddle steamer look so advantageous as compared with the model of a modern airliner, as a large-scale replica of a steam locomotive railway locomotive attractive copies of our days. A water suspension model “Kolesnik” the nineteenth century, looks amazing – plenty of add-ons “mast, pipe, efficient things – all this creates a mouthwatering flavor century couple.

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UAZ HUNTER

UAZ HUNTERUlyanovsk automobile plant has started to update the model range of cars produced in the First stage of this event was the release of the car UAZ HUNTER (“Hunter”) is an honored veteran of the UAZ-3151 is better known under the name of UAZ-469.

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FLYING OVER THE TRACK

FLYING ON TRACKDesigning patterns, usually always takes place in several stages. It is almost impossible to make a decent model, once having passed a way from calculation and drawing to stitched wing Mylar film. Typically, this is only the first step in creating the model. The following will be the flyby of the model and its numerous improvements. And only when to improve the model through modifications, it will be impossible, on paper, a second version of the model, which absorbed all the best from the first and supplemented by all those. it was impossible to implement in the first version, with improvements. This is followed by overflights and…

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“BOAT”-SNOWMOBILE

He was born and I grew up in that land of mother Russia, where the land most of the year is under a thick cover of snow, a reason those places is considered the birthplace of Santa Claus. Perhaps that is why along with General interest in engineering of particular interest to me has always evoked the snowmobile machine. To have such was my childhood dream come true. When I grew up and learned to do many things with their hands, decided to make its design. By the time I’ve not only studied the device snowmobile vehicles, but was able to critically evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of this technique.

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