Category: 1:72 scale
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Airfix Junkers 87 – Part Three – Boxing Day
If you are wondering what to do on Boxing day and your Christmas kits are sitting there…well, I ask you. As this Stuka was destined to have a dark-coloured scheme, it was a chance to use my black cement. It’s a 50/50 mix between a thin and thick cement. Perfect for parts that need to…
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Airfix Junkers 87 – Part Two – Inside The Office
Approaching an aircraft build with trepidation is always disheartening. But some kits beg it – the Czech short-run ones or the Russian re-pops often have too much inside or nothing at all. We have all seen the pilot figure stuck to a post from one side of the fuselage – or worse; nothing whatsoever under…
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Airfix Junkers 87 – Part One – Relax
It’s a new mould. But don’t relax too far. I looked at the sprue trees and found patches of flash and surprisingly large ejector pins. Fortunately the latter are mostly in areas that are hidden. Still, I don’t trust a couple and will burr them off before trying to join the wings. The kit features…
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Hannover CL III A – Part Three – Auferstehung
And not a zombie, either – a good-looking model for the collection. The Hannover CL IIIA was apparently a success. It could function as an observation or ground attack aircraft and a number of them were successful as fighters when newcomers on the Allied side pulled up behind one, thinking it was a single-seater. The…
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Hannover CL III A – Part Two – Tuch der Tränen
If ever you are presented with the prospect of building a WW1 German aircraft, look at the colour call-out carefully. It may have lozenge-pattern cloth used as basic covering, Prepare to tremble. The lozenge-pattern camouflage is going to be difficult – as the previous chap found out when he tried Humbrol enamel on the complex…
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The Hobby Shop For Other People
I visited a hobby shop in our metro area today in the search for any interesting new kits in my preferred scale – 1/72. It has a big supply of goods in there and I can see where people who are into other aspects of the Little World would enjoy themselves. Some hobbies are catered…
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RCAF Wellington Mk II – Part Six – Dortmund Or Bust
Not ” or ” as it happened…” and “… This aircraft – airframe W5390 – started out from RAF Pocklington near York on the night of April 4, 1942 – heading for Dortmund. This city, close to Essen, Duisberg, and Dusseldorf was very heavily bombed…nearly all the time. Well, W5390, wearing LQ*X code and flying…
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RCAF Wellington Mk II – Part Five – Night Black
The RAF night bomber scheme is a grim sort of design. Well I guess flying 300 miles in the dark, amongst a thousand other flying bomb dumps, and through radar-directed flak is a pretty grim business anyway. With a German Chancellor at one end and Arthur Harris at the other it seems like a murderous…
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RCAF Wellington Mk II – Part Four – It’s No Sin To Fill
But it’s no great honour, either… I’ve no idea if Tevye built model airplanes, but if he did, he would have been philosophical about it. For my part I accept the inevitability of gaps and defects and the need for a good fill and sand. AIrfix, on the other hand seem to have decided to…
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RCAF Wellington Mk II – Part Three – Sub-Assembly Is The Go
When you are building a model in three or four different locations, it pays to view each of these workshops as a separate shop. The real aircraft makers did this – in particular the American ones like Ford who could count on a number of plants in a general area. They assigned a particular sub-assembly…
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