Category: camouflage
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Spitfire Mk IX – Part Four – Is This A Decal Or A Tarpaulin?
I spent one morning recently decalling airplanes – a simple but delightful exercise in cut and paste. The surfaces of the planes were a clear smooth gloss and the first two decal sets – from Hobby Boss – were all that you could want. They were not pretentious markings – just stars, numbers, and a…
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Blu, White, Or Yellow?
Tack, I mean. Which stickum do you prefer? I’ve been googling about BluTac just now and apparently the formula is non-toxic, rubber based, and secret. It is made by the original people and half a dozen imitators – two of which I’ve been experimenting with. Useful for tacking posters to dorm wall and kid’s drawings…
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Good Morning, Walter – Part Nine – The Mistake
Well, Walter I am going to let you into a secret – I make mistakes in my Little Workshop. This one’s not the first one I’ve made when building my Little World. I suspect it won’t be the last. The grey Spitfire model you see at the top of the page looks pretty well weathered…
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Consolidated Liberator B VI – Part Seven – Olive Drab is The Colour of My True Love’s Heart
Or ” I love the smell of Olive Drab lacquer in the morning. It smells like victory “. Some colour schemes call to people like the sirens on the rocks – they lure modellers on to destruction. I would say this of French three-colour camouflage and commemorative airshow paint jobs. Even if half of the…
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Batch Processing*
I have spent the last three days batch processing US Army fighters, attack planes, and bombers. It started as a whim, became an experiment, and is looking to be a darned good technique for the future. It started with an idea – in my case these may be vast ideas or half-vast ideas, but you…
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Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part Eight – The Reverse Of The Coin – A Belated Episode
***This post seems to have been left out of the saga of the Boeing Fortress Mk III. I guess the scheduling on the WordPress site is getting out of hand a little. Read it anyway – It’ll fill you in on what happened between No. 7 and No. 9. *** I am never sure whether…
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OD’ing On Olive Drab
Is it just me or is it hard to find The True Meaning Of Olive Drab? I need to paint a number of USAAF planes and I am going to avoid the flashy multicolour of nose art and loud decals. I just want cooking quality Army ships for a diorama. You’d think that Olive Drab…
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Boeing Fortress Mk.III – Part Nine – Not A Good Idea, Max
Well that was a bust, albeit ultimately a successful one. The plan to carefully spray between the lines – with a Tamiya rattle can – was reasonably stupid thinking on my part. You saw in the last column where I just did the overall brown and went on as per normal. The camo lines were…
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Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part Two – The Box Open
Regular day today. April Fools torment over for another year. Here’s the contents of the new Airfix kit: Fuselage halves with a big space in the nose for variations in framing and windows. Propellers, superchargers, and what looks suspiciously like a steam dome for a locomotive. Internal framing bits and machine guns. Detailed engines and…
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Sandown Park 2019 – Part Ten – Break Out The Spray Gun, Lars.
I’m feeling sentimental… You cannot laugh at the Finnish Air Force. If you do they swoop down on you and open up with cannons and rockets. The Finns have very little sense of humour. This is not surprising. They live in between two heavily-armed neighbours – the Swedes and the Russians – and in their…
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