Category: British aircraft
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Hawker Hurricane Mk II – Part Four – The Next Grievous Error
Well, I added one today. The next foolish error. The one that separates the men from the boys. And I know which side I’m on… I had masked the new Hawker Hurricane Mk II very well and I was ready to shoot the upper works. As it was a cold day. I selected lacquer thinner…
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Hawker Hurricane Mk II – Part Three – The Beauty Salon
It was cold tonight. Rainy. I adjourned into the computer room with a portable modelling tray to proceed with the Hurricane in some comfort – the Little Workshop was just too miserable to work in, even with the heater on. The task was masking the pattern illustrated in the Avia publication on Canadian warplanes. I…
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Hawker Hurricane Mk II – Part Two – Ahhhhh, Chooo!
Oops. Sniff. Looks like it is all together…. Well, it almost seems like that with Hobby Boss. You sit there idly scraping down a seam line…that is nearly perfect anyway…and then you dry fit a couple of parts and then you decide to glue one in… And the thing is done. It’s not quite that…
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Bristol Benheim Mk I – Part Four – The Museum Aircraft
So why does a Bristol Blenheim Mk I bomber – a quintessentially early war RAF light bomber – show up in the Bomber Command hall of Stein’s Air World? I mean apart from the fact that there was a kit on the shelf at Stanbridge’s Hobby Shop and I had money in my pocket… If…
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Bristol Blenheim Mk I – Part Three – Goodbad Badgood Ideas
You know what a goodbad idea is? it’s a brilliant thought that you have had, carried out, and been sorry for. The opposite is a badgood idea…You’ve done something dodgy that has turned out well. The ratio of the two in some fields is 4:1…in politics 40:1. The best thing about the goodbad is that…
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Bristol Blenheim Mk I – Part Two – Extra Parts
I have always been surprised when I’ve read people complaining about getting extra parts in a model kit. It seems a sort of sacrilege – like objecting to an extra scoop of ice cream. Makes you want to edge away from them in case they do something disgusting. So every time I have a kit…
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Bristol Blenheim Mk I – Part One – The Cigarette Card Plane
When I was a child in Canada in the 5th grade, I was friends with a little English kid who had migrated with his parents to our mining town. I can’t remember much about him but I have one picture fixed firmly in my mind – he had a magnificent collection of English cigarette cards.…
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How Many?
I live in Perth, Western Australia – the furthest west that you can get before the world resets and it becomes east again. We’re where the wagon train either stops or gets extremely wet.. Our town has sheds, workshops, hobby rooms, garages, and minor factories all over the place – nearly every back yard has…
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Ticking Them Off
Ticking them off is ticking me off. I mean the various means for producing camouflage paint schemes on model aircraft. Recently I tried the Silly Putty Snake method for making British A and B aircraft patterns. I had two pots of different brands of silly putty and had researched all the YouTube videos on how…
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Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke – Part Two – If It Ain’t Bolingbroke…
In a reversal of other people’s normal behaviour patterns, I commenced doing the Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke before I had thoroughly researched it. I was going on an illustration in an Avia book about Canadian aircraft of the WW2 period and the one I wanted seemed to be similar to the Bristol Blenheim Mk IV. As this…
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