Category: camouflage
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Mitsubishi Peggy – Part Seven – Payday!
The gamble paid off! The wheel spun and the ball landed on my number and I got to rake in all the chips! Or in more staid terms, the pre-shading trick seems to have worked for the Mitsubishi bomber I’m building. I cannot claim invention – only emulation. But I seem to have hit upon…
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Mitsubishi Peggy – Part Six – In For A Penny…
In for a Pound. Or Yen, as it happens. I go whole-hog with a new idea. The pre-shading concept is not new to others, but it’s fresh to me. I’ve done a lot of Google study to see if it is a good idea and have decided that I have no idea – but a…
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Messerschmitt Me 109 E – Part Three – Never Mind If You Don’t Read German
Get up in that airplane, Pilot, and fly it. Ignore the instruments on the dashboard. You’ll be fine. Okay, it’s a small cockpit and you’re very tall. We can fix this. The fitters will unscrew the canopy and take it off. Wear a flying helmet. Or a wooly cap. You’ll be fine. Yes, I know…
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Heinkel He 111 – Part Five – On Your Feet
I am always eager to get a plane on its feet. And then I’m not, when I look and see what the manufacturers have moulded. So many of them make a set of landing gear that can never support the plane and is miserable to install. It is one of the stations on the model-building…
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Vega PV-2 Harpoon – Part Four – The Carioca Killer
Admire the pictures, Children – they are made with the new focus-stacking technique learned from YouTube. Nearly every part of the 1:72 aircraft in perfect focus . The technique is so simple as to be laughable. I secure the model under constant lighting ( 2 IKEA desk lamps ) and focus upon the closest part.…
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Vega PV-2 Harpoon – Part Three – Underwear
Under where did you want me to spray? I am getting good value out of my Mr. Hobby Procom single-action spray gun – the one I bought with funds raised by selling off unwanted photo gear. The gun is a big chunky thing with just one giant adjusting knob and an equally large finger button.…
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Learning Something – Part Two – The Mask Of Mystery
So Ivan’s wax coat was a failure. So be it. But now a different idea. I have made up a set of cardboard masks that can be laid over a model in various fashions. The material is stiff and will not conform to the smaller contours. For the first trial I took two of the…
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Any Day You Learn Something – Part One – Bright Ideas
Is a good day. The something you learn may be of great or small import, but the fact that it is now your possession is wonderful. Today I made use of Ivan Seryy it find out whether or not a scheme for camouflage painting was viable. The idea of being able to make soft-edge masks…
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MiG23 – Part Three – Ivan Seryy
The Academy kit went together really well, though it felt a little weird to not do a cockpit at all and to close in all the open bits. Academy models are always rewarding – probably because they used to be Hasegawa models and they were also rewarding. Ivan has several special features incorporated to perform…
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MiG 23 – Part Two – The Plunge
Deciding to make a sacrifice is a daunting thing – whether it is the business of culling your shirt collection and binning some or leading a chain of captives to the top of the ziggurat, you are faced with a decision; something’s going to be traded for something and you need to make sure that…
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