Category: British aircraft
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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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Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke – Part One – Mark Another One Up
I knew this was going to happen, but I didn’t know it was going to be so soon. I am repeating a build. No. I am repeating a build to a certain extent. I am doing what the prototype manufacturers and the air forces did – making the aircraft that developed from an earlier mark. In…
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We Need The Tiny Tin Can
I am looking at small and large cans of paint – spray paint, as it happens – and wondering at the rationale around it. The can contained a grey Tamiya primer. I’ve just sprayed the very last of it on a 1:72 aircraft and can feel satisfied – it completed the job just before it…
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Is There A Worse Way To Do It?
Because if there is, I want to know all about it. I love horror stories and the things that people invent to do for themselves in their modelling workshops are no exception. Oh, I don’t mean the accidents and mishaps. I can cut my fingers or spill thinner into the electric fire myself. And who…
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Extra Dark Sea Yellow-Pink
Or was that RLM Light Puce? Or Cockpit Poo Brown? Every source of information that one can access about authentic colours for scale models is based upon the opinion of the person who wrote it…and that may be perfectly valid, adequately valid, nearly valid, or a dog-bone lie. If it is connected in a commercial…
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The Only One Like It
If you are contemplating a big win in next year’s plastic modelling contest, I should get started now. Pop down to the hobby shop and pick up a totally exclusive, one-of-a-kind kit like a Mustang or Spitfire. And a packet of photoetched scale rivets for the detailing… There’s a fine point for the competitive modeller…
The Little World 