Category: camouflage
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Australian Hurricane – Part Two – The Fairly Green Machine
The RAAF wartime colours of Foliage Green and Sky Blue were not shown on the DK decals sheet that prompted the construction of this Hurricane, but they crop up in innumerable other sets of decals and aircraft profiles. As I have not done one exactly like this, it became the logical choice. And fortunately most…
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Northrop P-61 Black Widow – Part Six – Any Colour You Want
As long as it’s black. Henry Ford woulda been proud… The Northrop night fighter is ready to roam the dark skies. I have a feeling that it was just good luck on the part of the Japanese and Germans that it was so late in development. Had the Northrop designers not footled about with that…
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IAI Kfir C-1 – Part Three – Camouflage
Camouflage in two shades is easy – just paint the lightest colour first, mask it off, and then paint the darker shade. Do the demarkation line as you like – hard or soft, and pay attention to whether the prototype wrapped any of its colours past a natural contour. Move to three colours and you…
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Douglas Dauntless – Part Three – Perhaps It IS A Dountless…
Maybe they know something I don’t. In my relentless pursuit of knowledge – also known as surfing the net – I discovered that there were quite a few RNZAF Douglas SBD-4 and SBD-5 aircraft used in the South Pacific. There are a number of period photos of them in flight and on the ground in…
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Douglas C-47 – Part Four – The Romantic Gooney Bird
Do not adjust your set or your eyes. The green is supposed to look like that. VH – CGQ or ” Honeymoon Express ” was a lot dirtier in her flying days than she appears in the museum. Not a scrap of shine on her in the three photos that appear on the net. I…
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Brewster Bermuda – Part Eight – A Lovely Surprise
Well, mustard gas is always a surprise anyway, but this experimental Brewster Bermuda adds a stylish note to it. Not sure if I’m proud to have made an experimental Canadian gas plane of it, but the other options weren’t all that much better. The new technique of masking off the greenhouse entirely and temporarily gluing…
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Douglas Digby Mk I – Part Four – The Full Measure
I use that title because in many respects this Special Hobby build has taken the full measure of several things; my patience, my eyesight, and the remnants of several paint containers. The patience started to run out early on when the instructions called for the rudder pedals to be folded up out of photo-etched brass.…
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Hawker Sea Fury – Part Four – Perfect Paki
The PM model of the Hawker Sea Fury is just done and onto the photo table. It has been a symphony of pleasant surprises right from the start. And it’s a good lesson for the modern modeller – particularly the person who hangs on every internet report and thinks that there are experts who know…
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Hawker Sea Fury – Part Three – If You Look Very Carefully…
And I did. I did look carefully. And I’m glad I did. The external fuel tanks of the PM Models Hawker Sea Fury fit together very well. A lick of MEK, a clamp, and they were ready for sanding. And not a lot of that needed – the seams fit very well. As I had…
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Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk. V – Part One – The Bargain Kit
Well, you have to have a win sooner or later, don’t you? I had been eyeing the Airfix model of the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V for nearly a year as it progressed through the shelves of my local shop. It was on the ” to buy ” list but not near the top. Apparently…
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