Category: Canadian aircraft
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Lockheed CF-104 Starfighter – Part Two – The Scrap Box
One of our club mates passed away and the club became the repository for his stash and spares collection. It was the most daunting pile of plastic I have ever seen, and I have taken a lesson from it. I am going to build more and buy less – and have already started to sort…
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Lockheed CF-104 Starfighter – Part One – Widowmaker?
Well we got that one in print right off. You’ll see it repeatedly in the sensational press – attached to the F-104 in German service. You can read how many of them got into trouble, then look at what they hung off them and how they used them…and draw your own conclusions. The RCAF flew…
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Short Sunderland – Part Five – A Great Save!
And it isn’t even Hockey Night In Canada, Brought To You By B/A ( Canadian joke… ). This is, however an RCAF Sunderland that operated out of Northern Ireland in WW2. It was kept on Lough Erne along with other flying boats like Catalinas and sortied through the Donegal Corridor out to the North Atlantic…
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Short Sunderland – Part Four – More Masks Than The Italian Banditti
I am not a mask person. They make me nervous – whether they are the Venetian Carnival sort or the plain ones worn by train robbers. I spent 30 years wearing them in surgery and I was generally up to no good there either… So when I need to mask for spray painting, you can…
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Short Sunderland – Part Three – The Problem Of Dimension
The choice of 1:72 scale to model for my collection is politic – I can only fit so much in a small space. Most of the aircraft can be built on a bench and shown on shelf. My new jigs make this a real pleasure. But occasionally the sheer scale of the subject defeats this…
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Short Sunderland – Part Two – Like Painting A Fish
Well, that’s what it reminded me of…as well it might – being a flying boat. If it was to go on water, a fish shape would be most a appropriate. The insides are bare, but at least they are decorated. And the windows will not fall inward. I’ve seen that trick too often not be…
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Short Sunderland – Part One – Hello 1961
Another snap back to the past – in this case provided by a good friend. The Airfix Sunderland III. This is a later issue box than my original, but the parts are quite the same. This one is an 80’s version. I am hoping the decals have survived the decades, though to be sure they…
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North American Yale – Part Three – Canadian Peculiarities
It’s a nation that pours tree sap on its food. That eats strawberry jam pies. That considers chips in gravy and cheese to be healthy. Peculiarity is in the air. This also extended to the products of Canadian Car Foundry and the training airfields. Hence the odd hole in the side of the engine cover…
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North American Yale – Part Two – Cage Fighting
Or fighting with a cage, if you prefer. The business of welding together a plastic cockpit frame inside a plastic fuselage. Faint hearts need not apply. I have served my cage apprenticeship on a Special Hobby Avro Anson with a resin tubing structure and as a result I have been excused several centuries of Purgatory.…
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North American Yale – Part One – Exact Fit
When you find a pair of shoes that fit exactly – and they are on special sale – and you have the money – you owe it to your feet to buy them. And the same applies to model kits. I know I’m preaching to the choir here – I mean it’s model kit builders…
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