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Moral Modelling
If you would raise your scale model building to a higher plane, there are things you can do on a practical basis. a. Moderate your language while building. Resin cockpits, photo-etch brass, and plastic tank tracks are no excuse for unmannerly conduct. If the plastic is starting to melt and the box catches fire, you…
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Egyptian Mig 21 – Part Three – O..1
When life gives you MiGs – you make MiGaid… You research the internet until you find a real picture of the model you have in the box. Colour, for preference, and well-lit if possible. You can make do with older B/W photos but be wary of other people’s colourizations or the precise artwork of virtual…
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Egyptian MiG 21- Part Two – Here’s To Hasegawa
An afternoon’s cutting and cementing and the basic aircraft is done. It is nearly always about the paint scheme and markings, so getting to the decoration stage early can be a real comfort. Arriving without having to fill many seams or re-enforce wing or tail attachments is a bonus. Thus my relish as the MiG…
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Egyptian MiG 21 – Part One – Hales
Readers of this column will remember that I have built several other MiG 21 aircraft. One was a Condor from Eastern Europe, one from Academy, and one from Hasegawa, They are marked for Israel, East Germany, and Uganda respectively. Now a second Hasegawa kit has fallen free to me and will join the Egyptian Air…
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Modelling True To Yourself
Relax – there will be no hippie touchy-feely stuff. I’ve written before about trying out different types of modelling to see what you most enjoy. A car, a ship, an airplane, a rocket, and a tank give you a broad look at what is out there. Okay, there are trucks and figures and trains as…
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The Expensive Shop
We all know a hobby shop that is expensive to go to – because we spent more than we should have last time we visited. But was it really that bad? Or were we the authors of our own discomfort? Did we go in for a new bottle of black paint and come out with…
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Will We See The Z again?
Or will it remain on the nose, politically speaking? Eventually the Russo-Ukrainian war will end. I cannot say how or who will gain from it, and this is not the column space to debate politics. However, I did note that Zvezda and other Russian kits were disappearing from the Australian market back a few years…
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The Plastic Torch?
Is what we do a bit historical – or hysterical? I once bought an armload of 1:72 kits from a very nice chap who visited our modelling club. They were a number of items from his late fathers collection – the man unfortunately passed away far too early to build them. This is sad –…
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Mil 24 Hind F – Part Four – UkrAF
My first venture for the Ukrainian Air Force – and a good way to use an ex-Soviet design. Apparently the Ukrainians think so too – this Cold War troop carrying attack helicopter is doing quite well at low-level attacks and shooting down the larger Russian drones. The slower speed of a helo, plus its ability…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
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