Category: British aircraft
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RAF Puma – Part Three – Old Faithful
The Colde Wellcombe helicopter hack. When you need to be moved from one miserable part of the country to another, you call out the Colde Wellcombe duty Puma. Bob and Ian are always ready to do their duty, as long as the mess is closed. You may wish to avoid calling them out on Saturday…
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RAF Puma – Part Two – Seats
” You know what, Bob? We’re not flying a helicopter…” Well, what are we flying? ” A bus. We’re flying a bloody bus. Look at that row of seats aft and tell me we’re not just bus drivers. God, I dread it when school comes back…” And so it goes in the RAF helicopter trade.…
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RAF Puma – Part One – Vintage Helo
Another Airfix Vintage Classic on the shelf – don’t mind if I do… Yikes – Scalemates says this kit was first released in 1973 and has been steadily re-released with different artwork ever since. It is like a bus on a roundabout – just wait to get aboard until it next circles past… I am…
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Don’t Forget The Aerogard…
And the mosquito netting. Otherwise you’ll be bothered to death. Kudos to the SMCWA for their depictions of TV and movie themes in the recent WASMex exhibition. The idea made very good use of models that were already in the member’s collections as well as some new ones made especially for the show. Recognise the…
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Canada Geese
In Autumn, you can hear them in the sky as they fly south: ” Honk, Honk, Honk “. In Spring you hear them flying north. ” Eh, Eh, Eh…” You sportsmen and sporting gals get to gun them down on the journey south but the Mounties’ll arrest you if you do the same on their…
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Stupid Science Theatre – Dead Decals
The intrepid SST team attempted to raise the dead…and apply the resultant zombies to scale models. We have all had the disheartening experience of buying a bargain kit at a stash sale…only to discover that the decals have died long before the rest of the kit. They are yellowed, cracked, and possibly covered with the…
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Hawker Typhoon 1B – Part Three – Bombphoon
The Best That Could Be Done. There are some kits that you can build to the max of the craft. Others are on a lesser level – they can be to the max of your skill or the max of their limited potential, As long as you get to one of these points, you have…
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Hawker Typhoon 1B – Part Two – Scratch
Even if you don’t itch. It’ll be good for you. The bare tunnel between the open radiator grill and the open cockpit on this model are extreme – even for the early days of moulding. Airfix and Matchbox at least gave you a pilot, even if he was attached to the fuselage side with plastic…
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Hawker Typhoon 1B – Part One – Squashed Kit
Another flattened amphibian from 1974 – a WW2 Typhoon fighter-bomber. A kind gift from a club-mate – to whom I was able to reciprocate. This old Typhoon is in excellent shape, even if the box is not. All sprue trees complete and the canopy has not cracked. The instructions are not snail-eaten and the decal…
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French Lancaster – Part Three – Strut…
Alors! As soon as you see a good idea – then a better idea – all the ideas prior to it become bad ones. Students of model kit design are particularly sensitive to this, because we pay high prices for our education. Remember the old model airplane kits you bought that had a slot on…
