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All Kit Builders Should Build Something From Scratch
All scratch-builders should build a model from a kit. It is no good looking at someone else’s take on the scale model hobby and pooh poohing it. Or wondering whether they have it better than you. Or wondering whether you could ever do it… Wise experimenters do it simple at first. The long-time kit builder…
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When The Shopkeeper Gets Coy
When they run the product in the shelf so that you cannot see the price tag… When they put a “ Special “ sticker on something that has been there longer than you have been shaving… When they use that same “ Special “ sticker on something that has only just been shelved… You know…
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Soviet Hound – Part Five – ” I Have Maybe Helicopter “
” You need use maybe helicopter ? “ Drive truck to back of tarmac and have roubles in briefcase. Just you and barrels. Wait a minute. You pay for three barrel to fly. I count – here is six barrel. No labels on barrel. What inside? What you mean, ” Never mind? ” . Never…
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Soviet Hound – Part Four – It Is Never Open And Shut
It used to be – in the dear old days of Airfix and Monogram. You could buy a model kit that did things. Ailerons moved. as did flaps, elevators, and rudders. Canopies slid back over cockpits and wheels retracted into wells. Occasionally a bomb bay door opened and something fell out. It was all over-scale…
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Soviet Hound – Part Three – Delicacy Rears its Ugly Head
Or is it a frugal conscience? Or just inability to mix paint right? I wondered this as I inspected the Mil 4 model this week after spraying the grey undercoat. I had run out of Base White 1000 – my preferred undercoat for models that are going to be white or yellow – and was…
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Soviet Hound – Part Two – A Day’s Work
Since I retired a second time I have been busy being idle. It is a damned hard thing – you no sooner turn around than another thing falls off the house or someone comes to the door bleeding. It is no good slamming it shut and heading for the drinks trolley – eventually they will…
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Soviet Hound – Part One – A Working Dog
The Mil Mi-4a Hound seems to have been a general-purpose worker for the old Soviet Union from 1960 until the late 70’s. It is boxed by Trumpeter in a larger scale but Hobby Boss offer it for 1:72 in a very precise moulding. Four sprue trees, a colour call out sheet for the USSR and…
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Why’d You Build A Model Of THAT?
There are many paths, Grasshopper… a. It was the plane my father flew in the Battle of Britain. He was on the Finnish side. They shot at EVERYBODY. Little Helsinki on the Avon was a hotbed of aerial warfare. b. I had the money and the shop owner seduced me…by putting the kit on the…
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Canada Geese
In Autumn, you can hear them in the sky as they fly south: ” Honk, Honk, Honk “. In Spring you hear them flying north. ” Eh, Eh, Eh…” You sportsmen and sporting gals get to gun them down on the journey south but the Mounties’ll arrest you if you do the same on their…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 