Category: 1:72 scale
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Fujimi Aichi Val – Part One – Oh Boy Oh Boy Oh Boy
I finally got to build a model of an airplane my uncle Jack shot at on Dec. 7, 1941. Fujimi kits are thin on the ground here in Western Australia at the best of times and these aren’t the best of times. But a shelf of them turned up at the local shop and I…
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Airfix Vintage Val – Part One – Comparisons
It is said that comparisons are odious – or in the case of British cinema chains, Odeons. Be that as it may, I intend to contrast and compare the Airfix vintage classic kit of the Aichi Val dive bomber with the Fujimi example that I built earlier. The prices are rather similar, so it was…
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Fourteen Little People
I approach the exercise of painting figures with trepidation. There are so many better painters that I feel I am a fraud. Yet I need pilots for my aircraft and spectators for my air museum. So it is either paint the inexpensive figures or pay for the ready-mades…and these are very often at a price…
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CT-155 Hawk – Part Four – Wayne And Gordie
It looks as if our two favourite Canadian pilots – Wayne And Gordie – have a new mount. The BAE CT-155 Hawk is on the line at Moose Jaw and the new commemorative scheme is finally done. The stencilling and decaling took two weeks, though this is because it was a club build and we…
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CT-155 Hawk – Part Three – Commem
Or a tive. The colours of the Hawk are meant to echo those of an RCAF bomber squadron in WW2. As this is a NATO fighter trainer, I think it an odd choice, but I’m not the politicians or the paint shop. I just follow along. The top is a mix of a Mr. Color…
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CT-155 Hawk – Part Two – First Mistake
First mistake was not reading the colour call-out fine print – and painting the wheel wells the wrong colour. A tiny print panel says they are all white inside. I painted them grey, same as the cockpit. ( The cockpit is correct. ) Fortunately this can be taken to mean I have primed them with…
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CT-155 Hawk – Part One – Idly Interneting…
I drifted past the RCAF historian’s site and glanced at the trainers – in this case at the new ones. The BAE 100-series two-seat Hawk seems to have been a hit with the RCAF as an advanced fighter trainer. I looked at Scalemates and was encouraged to see that AIrfix make a new kit of…
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The Half Sticky Stickum
We all go down the aisle of the hobby shop and look for a way to spend our money…even if we don’t have a lot of it at the time. Don’t guffaw and pretend that you haven’t done exactly that. If you’re reading this you have come home occasionally with a left-handed canopy chopper or…
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Lockheed Hercules – Part Seven – Too Big For The Studio
But not too big for the runway. You’ll be seeing more of the CC-130 Hercules when it lands at Wet Dog Regional in the future – there is enough space around the plane to show all its fuselage and wings. In the meantime you’ll just have to make do with the little studio shots. The…
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Lockheed Hercules – Part Six – Three Tones of Torture
It is difficult for me to express how much I detest the designer of this colour scheme. I know that he or she must exist, but did I have my way, they would shortly not. If I were a freehand camo sprayer all this would be simple. Three pots of Mr. Color and a pleasant…
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