Category: 1:72 scale
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Gloster Javelin FAW 9 – Part Five – Eighty Three Cents A Day
The Gloster Javelin kit cost me $ 5.00 at a Sunday swap-meet. I built it over the next 6 days. Thus, it cost 83¢ per day. Try getting happy elsewhere for 83¢… I succeeded. The ex-FROG revamped 50’s kit went together logically and easily. The horrors of age were hidden by modern science and devious…
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Gloster Javelin FAW 9 – Part Four – Bang On
I’ve banged on about this before and I’ll bang on about it in the future – the use of a good jig or model support system is wonderful. Mine are from Vertigo Jigs, Slovakian-made and available through BNA here in Australia. I’ve got the WW2 fighter jig and the modern jet jig. The Gloster Javelin…
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Gloster Javelin – FAW 9 – Part Three – Trench Warfare
Try as you might to buy kits that need no major work, you are still at the mercy of the moulding shop. Tamiya may be a safer bet than FROG but do not let the tube of putty out of your sight… This was a case of trying the new sprue goo mixture. I finally…
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Gloster Javelin FAW 9 – Part Two – Evolving A FROG
I have been googling the Javelin kit I bought and have come to some interesting conclusions – it is the Mister Craft mould but there are marked differences between these two and the original FROG sprue trees for the 1950’s. These chiefly revolve about the addition of a long whale-rib probe on the starboard side…
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Gloster Javelin FAW 9 – Part One – Fin Fun
Did goe to the Swappe Meete and was greatley entertained. And did spende a very few coins to purchase my pleasures. One of the pleasures was this Polish model of a Gloster Javelin Mk9. Keen eyes will recognise it as the FROG mould that has been in eastern European hands for some time now. Mister…
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Workshop – Never Throw Nuthin’ Away
In fact, if they have special on nuthin in Bunnings, buy two extra packets. For my overseas readers, Bunnings is an Australian DIY store. It sells everything that the average man or woman needs to get themselves in big trouble in the home workshop. You can buy poisons, sharp knives, and the sort of machinery…
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Christmas And Birthday All Year Round
Remember Christmas as a kid? Remember your birthday? Remember the present in the wrapping paper that looked suspiciously like a model kit – and the final minutes of anticipation before you got to it and unwrapped it? Be honest with yourself…if it WAS a model kit when the paper came off, you were thrilled. It…
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Dewoitine D.510 – Part Four – Spanish Star
I am delighted to say that the Dewoitine D.510 has made it to the photographic flying field and it is a sunny day. The silvery colour is French silver-grey – a custom mix that has just received a boost from the dregs of a Mr Color bottle. It has changed yet again, which is the…
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Dewoitine D.510 – Part Three – The Jig
My pleasure at a Christmas present continues to grow. You’ve read my notes about the Slovakian plastic model jigs I received as a present this last Christmas. They are in daily use in the production of the 1:72 aircraft kits and I am learning to manage them better. I”m still not sure if the 5-minute…
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Dewoitine D- 510 – Part Two – I Underestimated Them
I should not have been so cynical about the KP moulders. The wings of the Dewoitine D-510 looked a little unsure at the start – the tabs seemed vestigial. The fitting surfaces minimal. I foresaw structural re-enforcement needed. I was wrong. The kit fits. The cockpit goes into the fuselage without trimming – the fuselage…
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