Category: 1:72 scale
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Norcanair DC-3 – Part Three – A Return To Sanity
One can only build obscure European designs from the 1930’s so long… Eventually your gall bladder starts to complain. There is only so much weird and ugly that it can take. A French bomber in the block-of-flats style tends to stretch the imagination past the snapping point – eventually you have to return to reality…
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Norcanair DC-3 – Part Two – The Inside Seats
Very few paying passengers opt for the back porch seats on the Norcanair DC-3 flights over northern Saskatchewan. At least not after October. Everyone wants to stay inside huddled round the wood stove. To this end I have adapted ten seats gleaned from a Heinkel airliner of the 30’s. The expensive people get armrests and…
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Norcanair DC-3 – Part One -The Ex-Dakota
A former Canadian airline, Norcanair, probably got their fleet of DC-3 aircraft from the RCAF – if the big side cargo door is anything to go by. This is wonderful – I need a distinct type for my Canadian airport and as this kitted so widely by Airfix and Italeri, I am spoilt for choice.…
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US Navy Phantom II – Part Three – Repeated Masking
Sometimes I make work for myself, and sometimes people make it for me. This Airfix US Navy scheme is really quite simple – the top light gull grey and the bottom white – but the navy decided to complicate things by painting some of the flying surfaces in white as well. Indeed they also apparently…
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US Navy Phantom II – Part Two – The Sixties Return
In my case, without the hair… I don’t care – if the era came back with half this much success, I would be delighted. So far the old Airfix Series 3 kit is doing very well indeed. The basic structure went together at one afternoon session. However, it was never going to go together without…
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US Navy Phantom II – Part One – Airfix Series 3
This older Phantom came as a part of a legacy sale. It is a Series 3 Airfix kit – boxed, and from 1965. Even if the actual production of this box was in later years, that’s a long time, and the instructions, decals, and moulding are bound to have suffered. Since then, of course, many…
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Such A Simple Idea
So effective. The decal box was a gift from my friend John – he is a constant shopper on Temu and other Asian hobby sites. As a scale model builder himself, he is razor-sharp when looking for tools and paints. This was a real find. It is a plastic box, fitted with a fine-grain foam…
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Finnish Brewster Buffalo – Part Three – 1945
Let us be delicate about this… In 1945 the Finns were on the winning side of a losing war. Actually several wars. They had fought the Soviet Union on their own behalf, as partners with nazi Germany, and then fought the Germans for their own territory as part of the Allies. It was a situation…
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Finnish Brewster Buffalo – Part Two – All In A Day’s Play
I have given up days of work. Now I slave away at a hobby… it is much more trouble… And I should not have it otherwise. I can remember employment and practice and professional education and have no desire whatsoever to go back and re-commence them. If I had to do it all over again,…
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Finnish Brewster Buffalo – Part One – The Herd Increases
As a child I once had an unbuilt balsa model of a Brewster Buffalo. It was well beyond my skills at the time but the design always intrigued me. Perhaps that is why I have built four of the beasts so far for my 1:72 collection. This one is the Hobby Boss version – a…
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