The Little Model Maker's Cookbook

Introduction

For about a year now we have been observing a significant decline in the modeling hobby, which is a great pity. “Model making” is not, in my view, just a hobby.
It is also a fairly sophisticated “tool of technical education,” especially for children and youth.  While even in kindergartens preschoolers are already babbling English vocabulary, many an adolescent cannot imagine how “long” a centimeter roughly is. In the case of technical education of children and youth, in my view, the Ministry of Education has failed fatally and continues to fail. It will take at least several generations of children before we manage to more or less reverse this situation. If you also don’t like that your sons or grandsons keep wearing out their brain cells by staring at a mobile phone or computer, we will try to create for you a kind of guide with the help of which you can experimentally “do model making” with children.
I do not claim that everything I gradually write here will be defined technically correctly.

What will be important is that young model makers can imagine something concrete under this or that term. The models are designed for children from about 6 to 10 years old, in the first phase for joint work with parents, grandparents, or teachers. After such a “collective” first gluing of the model, they are already able to reproduce the model themselves in any quantity.

The purpose of the models is also not great flight characteristics, but acquiring basic technical and practical habits,
including safety when working on and flying them.
Fingers crossed and let’s get to it.

PS: This series of articles and the foreword were published in the magazine Model Hobby in 2017–2018.
Since they are no longer available in the magazine, I decided to gradually publish them on our website.

Unedited cut-outs and articles may be shared non-commercially as needed.
But I would be glad if you wrote to me about their use (statistics).  

R. Hiesbök 2024