Category: 1:72 scale
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Heinkel He 177 – Part One – The Griffon Again
This model is a gift from my friend Paul, but it is not the first time I’ve built one. I purchased the same model from a small hobby shop located underneath Trinity Arcade in Perth in the 1960’s – a last gasp of plastic modelling before academic pressures took all my spare time away. I…
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Hawker Demon – Part Three – I Was Right
Well, it had to happen some time, eh? The Airfix Vintage Classic Hawker Demon is a colourful gem. The decision to pair it with the Bristol Bulldog was brilliant; it is every bit as good. The building fit was straightforward – once the sinks and posts had been dealt with. Very little filling needed on…
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Hawker Demon – Part Two – That Sinking Feeling
Bovril would have prevented this… Actually the problem is ejector post marks in the wings of the Demon. They are as marked as any I’ve ever seen, but fortunately Airfix configured the mould to place them on the underside of the wings and tailplane. Equally fortunatly I have an unused tube of Mr. Hobby white…
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Hawker Demon – Part One – VC Airfix
That’s ” vintage classic ” as it says on the box, but the VC connotation is not at all inappropriate for many of the re-issued Airfix kits. They can really be prize winners. This was a kit that nagged the eye in the shop for a number of months until I had completed the Airfix…
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Junkers Ju 87 – Part Five – Temporary Transport
And apparently that was all it was. They captured this one on a Tunisian airfield when the Germans retreated, gave it a quick desert pink and grey spray job, and stencilled it for USAAF and RAF markings. Then they flew it as a unit hack – until someone wrote it off. Bad airplane? Bad pilot?…
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Junkers Ju 87 – Part Four – When You Don’t Have To Land On A Boat
I am led to this line of thought by the glued-together Stuka – devoid of filler, undercoat, paint, wheels or any other signs of civilisation. As luck would have it it sat next to a completed model of a Northrop BT-1 for a while and the differences in the ships was marked: a. The Stuka…
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Junkers Ju 87 – Part Three – Fuselage
If ever the doctors start looking at radiographs of me and wondering why there are ulcers in my stomach and gaps in my brain, I am going to show them the business of fitting two fuselage halves together. I expect sympathy and understanding. Remember this is 1975, this kit. Margaret Thatcher has been elected Prime…
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Junkers Ju 87 – Part Two – Dry Fit
After learning how to correctly cut parts from sprue trees ( learned last year… ) the next most important thing I’ve discovered is the importance of the dry fit stage. And the more of the kit you can get to hang onto itself in this preliminary exercise, the better idea you’ll have of how to…
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Junkers Ju 87 – Part One – Hoping For A Revellation…
My first ever plastic model kit was by Revell – made when they were located in California. Now that they are a German firm, things may have changed. I see reports from the British modelling press that they are a curate’s egg – some kits fine and some foul. I also see cries of derision…
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The Work-Rounds For Genius Modellers
There is more than one way to skin a cat, but you’d be wise not to tell this to pet owners. However, if you are a scale modeller there are a number of solutions to common problems that appear if you are prepared to think outside the box. Or, in the case of old Airfix…
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