Category: 1:72 scale
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North American Sabre – Part Four – The Aliens Are Not Coming
But that doesn’t stop me from putting on my tinfoil hat. I’m not repelling mind control – I’m keeping out stray spray paint. I find occasionally that I have a need for a trim colour that is too big for brushing but too small for a major masking stage. In the case of the Sabre…
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North American Sabre – Part Three – The Putty Worms Win Again
The debate about how to put on soft-edge British camouflage seems to have finally been decided – the J. Burrows Tuff Tac is the answer for most effects. The Sabre needs a simple day fighter scheme and in this case the contours are very smooth – no better time to trial the new technique. There…
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North American Sabre – Part Two – Two Evenings
I settled into a pleasant routine of an day – since the weather has turned hot I have decided to adjourn at 1:00 PM to the indoor modelling desk and complete small tasks. If these are brush painting or cementing jobs I can do them in comfort – the Little Computer room has an air…
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North American Sabre – Part One – Why Is It So Hard To Build It Easy?
Answer – because we have so many choices. The Airfix North American F-86 E Sabre and the Canadair Mk 4 Sabre seem very similar in their boxes. The outside art changes and the decal sheets are different but I’m willing to bet I’m going to find the same plastic inside the clear bag on this…
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The More Chemicals You Use…
The closer you get to TNT. I was drawn to this conclusion by a painting disaster. I’d masked over AK lacquer paint with the GSI Creos firm’s Mr Masking Neo solution – the light blue rubber solution that remains elastic after it dries. The material came in an attractive bottle with a brush and I…
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Heinkel He70 F2 – Part Six – Like A Newly-Minted Penny
The Heinkel He 70 has been delivered to the RRAAF. It appears that there has been somewhat of a mixup. Whether this is due to the purchasing commission spending a good deal of time in the cabarets of Berlin, or whether there has been some interference in the order by the Reichsluftministerium remains to be seen…
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Heinkel He-70 F2 – Part Five – The Paint Shop
Ruritanians are, on the whole, a conservative people. They rarely throw over old forms or designs just to revel in novelty. The motto ” Neuheit Ist Scheit ” is ingrained in them. Thus they hold to traditional colour schemes for most of the aircraft in the RRAAF. In some cases this tradition has been the…
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Heinkel He-70 F2 – Part Four – Respec’
I have gained a massive amount of respect for the ICM model making firm – the one who originated the mould for this Revell kit. The fit of the first components is quite superb. Not as definite as Tamiya, but precise enough to allow some serious structure to be built. The actual cockpit of the…
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Heinkel He 70 F-2 – Part Three – Dryfit
Dryfit is not just the brand name of a battery. It is the essential part of nearly all model kit making. It was one of the chief pleasures I had as a kid with the kits. When you dry fit a model you get to play with it far longer than just gluing it together.…
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Heinkel He70 F-2 – Part Two – Methinks I Doth Smell A Ratte
And it may be a Ukrainian ratte at that. The kit has just been started – the cockpit tray completed and some preliminary wing work to box in the wheel wells – and already I am suspicious that this kit has Eastern European origins. Or at least Middle Europe. Middler than Germany, at any rate.…
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