Category: 1:72 scale
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Mitsubishi Peggy – Part Five – Airframe Day
Well, the Peggy is closed up and winged. Airframe day passed successfully. I do not decry the Czech makers of short-run kits for their economies of production – at least I do not condemn them too much. I appreciate the fact that they bring me things I could otherwise never have. But I do miss…
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Mitsubishi Peggy – Part Four – A Detour
I have an ongoing problem with model kit building – one that is exacerbated by the fact that I build my kits in three locations. This involves hauling kit boxes and part-made structures around with me. The problem is that parts can go missing. I have tried to prevent this by adhering to the practice…
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Mitsubishi Peggy – Part Three – The Offices
Notify the Department Of Occupational Health And Safety, Yoshi. I think we have a situation. If we are to be the crew of the Mitsubishi ” Hiryu ” bomber we certainly do. See the three big green objects on the flight deck just behind the navigator and radio operator’s station? These are petrol tanks. Un-armoured…
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Mitsubishi Peggy – Part Two – First Club Day
The Peggy will be a Tuesday Plane – the name I give to models that I dedicate for my scale modelling club outing each week. If I am rigorous in sticking to this schedule it should last quite some time – I do not work on it on other days of the week. Were the…
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Mitsubishi Peggy – Part One – Buddy Holly
At the risk of alienating my readers, I would like to recall them to the 1957 song by Buddy Holly: ” Peggy Sue ” and let it play in their minds. It will do so all day, I assure you… The Mitsubishi ” Hiryu ” bomber is a Hasegawa kit that came up in the…
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Messerschmitt Me 109 E – Part Three – Never Mind If You Don’t Read German
Get up in that airplane, Pilot, and fly it. Ignore the instruments on the dashboard. You’ll be fine. Okay, it’s a small cockpit and you’re very tall. We can fix this. The fitters will unscrew the canopy and take it off. Wear a flying helmet. Or a wooly cap. You’ll be fine. Yes, I know…
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Messerschmitt Me 109 E – Part Two – Airfix’s Steady Earner
The old saw about selling people bread applies to the scale model business as much as it does to bakeries. If people want bread, you bake bread. Never mind the fact that every other establishment in town also turns out loaves – and put aside your enthusiast’s desire to bake upside-down unicorn croissants…bread sells, and…
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Messerschmitt Me 109E – Part One – The Internet Delivers Again
If you have nothing to do for the next few hours, start Googling. Tear yourself away from the porn, conspiracy theories, and on-line shopping and research something arcane. I just did and now I can have a week of fun with it. I don’t build aircraft with certain markings – which is somewhat of a…
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Big Shiny Silver Planes
I admire the model builders wo make aircraft that have complex camouflage schemes – the ones that tackle the german or italian schemes of the WW2 period – or any of the WW1 schemes – earn my respect and praise. yet i very often do not follow them. It is not for want of trying…
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De Havilland Heron Mk II – Part Five – Whew
Well, the colour coats are done – the trim stripe is done – the decals are on. The various pieces are being cemented and snapped in. The air crash did not destroy the bird. Every speculative colour scheme that you think up – every set of decals you print yourself – every artistic decision you…
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