HELP!! Spinning prop disc's mfg. ?????

I don't know if this is good enough for what you have in mind.

Good day, F Marion

Heres what your looking for. Propblur

My experience has been the spinning prop discs of any type look phony. The time or two I wanted a spinning prop, I simply removed the props from the hub and let it go at that. If you are close to an airport, check the spinning props out. They tend to be less visible for some reason than they are in photos or movies. Kim M

Pretty much for the same reason that stagecoach wheels looked like they were moving backwards in Westerns. Film is shot frame-by-frame whilst human vision is continuous.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Swede, Many years back - maybe late 1960s early 1970s I was getiing back into the hobby after college. Airfix included clear disks to be used as spinning props. They were punched out of thin sheet plastic. At first I thought this was really cool - you could now have a prop plane on the stant - gear up like it was flying. They never looked right - first the edge was more visible than it should have been. Next the props in picture usually show some washed out color like the yellow tips. I tried all sorts things to get this to work - mounted one on a slow motor and tried to hold a brush with thinned paint to it. Centrifigual force won on all those attenpts. - Finally gave up. Not sure there really is a good solution to this.

Val Kraut

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To do a similar effect in a plastic disc you have to sand some concentric grooves/scratches in three or four sections of the disc. Then rub some paint in them and wipe off. hth

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

Back in the '30s some model company of the day (Skybirds) sold a spinning prop device that consisted of a watch mainspring that you would replace the propeller with. You could sort of spring it, and as it vibrated, would supply the spinning prop illusion. Kim M

Back in the '70s before Frog was sold into the Soviet union they marketed a motor to be installed in the engine nacelle that spun the prop(s). I never hunted one out as it seemed a probable gimmick.

Bill Banaszak, MFE