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As Al Capone Said…
” Dis organisation is moider. “ I have lost yet another major part from a new kit. I doubt it will be found and I do not want to buy another kit for just one part. So it is out with the old Pinkysil silicone moulding rubber and some resin – I will copy the…
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Super-Detail The Coffee Cups
On the navigator’s table – in your 1/144 Wellington bomber. Buy our after-after-market pack of resin, PE brass, and precision-milled titanium castings and get that 1940’s RAF vibe going. $ 46.98 is nothing at all when you consider the level of realism that you will see on your workbench. The fact that no-one else in…
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Late Night Modelling
A doom-laden exercise. Unless you are building an Aurora ” Famous Monsters ” kit you’ll be making trouble for yourself. As modellers we have routines and patterns that govern our lives. You just try walking past the hobby shop and not going in to see if there are kits on the shelves. You will be…
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Lifespan
Is there a natural lifespan for scale models? I have seen a magnificent dolls house in London that apparently belonged to one of the British Royals when she was a girl. I suspect it was in the 20’s…but it is preserved in a museum for all to see. It may well go for another century…
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RCAF Hudson – Part Four – 145 (BR) Sqn
Eastern Air Command, Torbay, Newfoundland. Well, if you cannot have dedicated patrol bombers from the British Air Ministry, you buy or borrow them from the USAAF. Pressed into service for a long time, they did succeed in sinking a U-Boat and damaging several, The last few years of their service was arduous and even the…
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RCAF Hudson – Part Three – Mother Hubbard’s Hudson
She went to the cupboard – or in this case the interior of the bomber – and it was bare… Just as well my model of the Lodestar from Special Hobby has a full passenger interior- even their Harpoon had a better cockpit. About all you can say for AIrfix is that the bulkheads fit…
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RCAF Hudson – Part Two – I Been Airfixed Again
And I didn’t even know it until now… Look at Part One for the parts layout picture. Note that only one elevator panel is shown on the shot. I did not pick this up until I came to assemble the horizontal stabiliser. Airfix had dudded me again. But I don’t dud easy. I remembered what…
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RCAF Hudson – Part One – At Long Last
I have skirted around the Lockheed Hudson for decades. My collection includes a Lodestar, a Ventura, and a Harpoon – all fun to build and successful finishes. Yet the basic Hudson has eluded me – until Airfix decided to revive a Vintage Classic. I’ve been haunting the red-box shelves in two shops for months –…
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The Most Expensive Model I Have Ever Made
Vs the most economical one. Which was better? Why? The most expensive model I have ever made to date would probably have been an R/C ship I constructed in the 1970’s. It took fibreglass resin, cloth, a Futaba radio control set, several motorcycle batteries, a Taycol and then a Graupner electric motor, perspex sheeting, and…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 