Category: 1:35 scale
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S.P. – Part Two – Polish Soft Serve
The plastic with which this Polish kit is moulded is not quite as soft and flaky as that used in the French Mach 2 offerings…but not too much harder. It is softer than new Airfix styrene and it pays not to cut too close to a moulded surface for fear of gouging or tearing. However,…
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Samochód Pancerny – Part One – And Now For Something Entirely Different
One day I met a man at a fair and he was selling magic beans… Okay. I confess. I’m bean stalking you. It wasn’t at the fair, it was at the model club. And he wasn’t selling magic beans – he was selling unwanted kits from Poland. A big cardboard box of what may have…
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I Learns A Waluable Lesson…
In undoubted proof that you are never too old to learn, I have. Learned, that is…the old just comes with the territory. Shooting my scale model reports for this column, I follow a regular pattern. An introduction with the kit’s box, instructions, sprue trees, and decal sheet, then a number of building stages, then a…
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The 1/35th Scale Holy Grail
Or ” No glue-sniffing in church…”. I have recently joined a Facebook group associated with 1/35 scale model tanks. It’s a large group and many people send in wonderful pictures of their kits and builds. It has several members besides myself here in Perth. I sent in three posts this last week revolving around amour…
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Anorak – Part Four – One I Prepared Earlier
Here he comes – the club anorak. Down the line of modellers at the bench, with his characteristic cry: ” I think you’ll find…” Don’t reach for a revolver, unless you like making those 1:1 plastic replicas. Reach for the print-out from the net that shows the tank you are working on. When the anorak…
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Ess Bend Engineering – Part Three – Boxing Clever
I used to wonder at some of the kits I saw in the hobby shop – kits that seemed to be of such mundane subjects that I didn’t think anyone would ever be interested. Wrong. Wrong on many levels. I got the first indication of this when I saw the late, great, John Evans building…
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Ess Bend Engineering – Part Two – Now You Sea One
And I wish you could sea two. The Trumpeter kit for a 40′ sea container is a beauty – and as it came under the wing of an EOFY sale by Hobbytech, I seized upon it gleefully. I would have been even more delighted if it had been a pair of 20′ containers as these…
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Ess Bend Engineering – Part One – We’re Not Made Of Money, Eh?
Go easy on the toilet paper, willya? The cheapest repair shop in Alberta is located round the Ess Bend. Wayne and Gordie specialise in fixing things that other people won’t touch and if you’re smart, you won’t touch the stuff afterwards, either. They are the favourite shop for the less prestigious museums and collections as…
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The Big Local Scale Model Exhibition – Part Seven – Tanks For The Memories
At one time I would have regarded armour models and military vehicles with only minor interest – I am an aviation modeller. Yet, the need for prop vehicles for my airfields, and then civilian vehicles, has meant an increased recognition of the little machines. And recently a dollar purchase of a Polish armoured car in…
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