Category: 1:72 scale
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Curtiss Shrike – Part Two – Folding Wing Or Not?
Not. The USAAF was not concerned about squashing a dive bomber onto a deck-edge lift to strike it down to a hangar deck. They could specify a fixed wing and get a stronger one that would hold more bombs. The Dragon model company makes this kit serve several purposes – US Navy SB2C as well…
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Curtiss Shrike – Part One – Down From The Shelf
This Dragon Models kit of the Curtiss A-25-A has been sitting in Hobbytech for ages. In the early days I would have put it down to a high price…but this has been surpassed by Czech kits since then. Or to the odd-looking box art. But this is no worse than some Eastern European stuff. Or by…
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You Get What They Got
Or you just git. The internet is a wonderful place to see hobby kits and supplies that you cannot obtain. It is not the fault of the hobby shops – they would sell you scale kits of your grandparents if they were obtainable. They are in the unenviable position of not being able to get…
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Ol’ Stinky
In the social world of liquid masking agents, Humbrol’s Maskol is the one you rarely invite to the cocktail party. It is purple, stringy, and smelly. A lot like some people I know. I’ve tried it for masking camouflage patterns in 1:72 and found it to be problematical. It sticks, alright, but sometimes long after…
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Revell Brewster Buffalo – Part Three – Good Enough For the Dutch
Poor old Hollanders. They never seemed to have a good time of it in their wars. The English beat them off the sea in the 1700’s and the Japanese scoured them out of the Dutch East Indies in the 1940’s . I wonder if they have ever won anything? Perhaps they do when they retell…
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Revell Brewster Buffalo – Part Two – Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron
I am nothing if not buoyant when it comes to really bad kits. It is the effect of cheerful optimism and iron-bound stupidity. I welcome a challenge…much as I welcome Redback spiders. Considered as an artistic thing, the port wing of the Revell Buffalo is rather elegant. It has a french curve to it. I…
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Revell Brewster Buffalo – Part One – Baggie Of Doom
They make a joke about the Shelf Of Doom on the Flory show…but we all know of kits that are headed there no matter what we do. The little Revell baggie containing the F2A model looked to be a prime example. It had resided in a hot and cold attic for decades before my friend…
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Pink Poles
Before you start to wonder if this has turned into a porno site, let me assure you it always was. But we were using code-words. If you didn’t get it, you weren’t the one the code was intended for. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, look at the two pink airplanes. They…
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MiG 17 – Part Four- The A-Team Moment
I love it when a plan comes together… The Egyptian MiG 17 sitting at Schmattarim Museum Is not the same as the one at Hatzerim Museum. Not at all. There is no Arabic writing on the nose. The wheels are still Soviet Green*. And it has not totally faded out in the Negev sun. But…
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MiG 17 – Part Three – Dam Those Wings
I have always thought that wing dams were an admission of error on the part of an aircraft designer. Yet they feature on any number of Eastern and Western jets – mostly the ones that have swept wings. You may know them as stall fences or barriers. They keep the air moving back past the…
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