Category: Box Art
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Dassault Super Mystere – Part One – A Mystere Indeed
Not the least puzzling aspect of which was the price – 33% of from a dealer’s table at a big local scale model exhibition. Why did people not snap this up before? Well, I was not going to miss out on a new model for my Schmattarim Museum. This was the pick of the weekend…
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German General Service Truck – Part One – Leftover
I need ground vehicles for a new airfield I am contemplating. This one will be in eastern Europe post-war, so there are any number of vehicles possible. The first one will be a German general service V3000S two-axle type. It appears to have originated in the Ford factory – possibly in Köln. The kit itself…
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Simplistic Modelling For Complex People
Have you ever wanted to have a perfectly-detailled scale model of a walnut? Or a woodpecker? I cannot vouch for the first but I remember that there were plastic kits of birds that my friend Trevor built in the late 50’s. The kits came with matt paints and brushes and he was reasonably good at…
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A7 Corsair II – Part Four – Two-Tone
I puzzled about the white horizontal stabiliser and trailing wing surfaces on this Corsair II when I saw the colour call-out. Of course I was bound to follow the diagram, and as it was the same for most of the variants I knew it was deliberate. Then it struck me – if you did not…
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A7 Corsair II – Part One – A Childhood Dream
I always admired the Ling-Temco-Vought Corsair II when I was a boy and dreamed of flying it. Had I dreamed up some way to see without glasses I might have saved myself some heartache., This childhood infatuation eventually petered out when I discovered girls, but it is somewhat surprising that I never built a model…
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The Sparkless Stash…
Or the stashless spark. Is it better to have no kits but brilliant plans, or plenty of kits but no interest? There are any number of people with big stashes who lack the motivation to build anything. They look listlessly at the shelves of plastic in boxes and nothing at all calls to them. It…
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Messerschmitt 410 – Part One – Family Connection
You might be surprised at a family connection with a German night fighter, but there is one. Not my family – the wife’s uncle. A Mosquito pilot in the RAF in 1944, he was on night-fighter patrol over France when he encountered a Messerschmitt 410 Hornisse. He shot it down, the thing was confirmed on…
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De Havilland DH2 – Part One – Another Revellation
This little guy was sitting forlornly in the legacy sale box – along with the Fokker Eindekker and the Nieuport 28. Well, if you are in for a penny… The idea of making a 1:72 scale model of something this spindly is pretty desperate – as much on my part as on that of Revell…
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JS-2 Tank – Part One – A Step Up From The TKS
I endured such a razzing from my scale model club mates when I built the tiny Polish TKS tankette that I have decided to get my revenge. And who better to provide it than the Russians. They provide excess misery for everyone else, why not harness it to my purposes. So here is a Josef…
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