Category: Canadian aircraft
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Beechcraft Model 18 – Part Two – Individual Excellence
The new model is going together very quickly – aided by reasonably accurate fit in the disparate sub-assemblies. I use the term disparate, because while these components are well suited in themselves…they all hold a proud independence in their geometry. In simpler terms, they fit, but not to each other. This was a phenomenon noted…
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Beechcraft Model 18 – Part One – The Promising Twin
I was ambushed by this kit through an email from a Melbourne hobby shop. They send out regular lists of new arrivals and this was in the same order as the Hawker Sea Fury. It also came with a companion Beech 18 – a USAAF AT-11. The cost of this kit is $19 and the…
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Fokker F-27 Friendship – Part Four – More Planning Needed
Relax, folks..all is going well. But I cannot help but think that it could have gone well more easily. I am not a patient man with puzzles. I can stand about 15 minutes of a jigsaw before I go out looking for strong drink. I do not read mysteries. I should have set fire to…
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Fokker F-27 Friendship – Part Three – The Prime Example
You may be a little surprised to see me priming the F-27 fuselage separately from the wings. The reason is that the wings will not be cemented on until the very last moment – they are a different colour than the fuselage and their absence will make the fuselage painting so much easier. I’ll be…
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Fokker F-27 Friendship – Part Two – Paying Customers
I admire Italeri greatly for including the interiors on their airliners – after all, these are planes designed to carry people for money, and just moulding up a bare interior is a slack way of doing it. I am prepared to put up with the absence of overhead luggage lockers as these can be made…
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Fokker F-27 Friendship – Part One – The Shelf Sitter
This Italeri Fokker F-27 Friendship kit sat on the Hobbytech 1:72 shelf for the better part of a year, along with a number of other modern jet models. The fact of the long wait for a buyer might argue that the kit is bad or the price is too high – yet neither of these…
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Bristol Beaufighter – Part Four – EE-U
It is not often I get to build a model of a different real aircraft. Of course the makers of the kits pattern them off real ones that they find in museums – and these can be built from the box. But if you do, you are just building what everyone else who has purchased…
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Vickers Delta Mk III – Part Five – Not Quite Ubiquitous
I realised that this Delta is the third example of this aircraft to come from the Little Workshop. I am horrified to realise that it may not be the last. If I continue at this rate I will be as guilty as the man with eight Fieseler Storchs… This state of affairs is, as usual,…
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Vickers Delta Mk III – Part Four – Tall Tails From The Canadian Woods
I mentioned the fact that I had secured two copies of the Special Hobby Vickers Delta Mk III kit from Metro Hobbies by post. They languished for some time before I felt the urge to build, but now that MX-B has come out so well, I’ve decided to keep up the momentum and start on…
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Vickers Delta Mk III – Part Three – MX-B
That book is a gem. It’s got MX-B both as a profile drawing and in actual photographs. It’s also got photos of their base in British Columbia – perhaps I’ll build a seaplane base one day. For now, MX-B will feature in the Coastal Command hall in the Air World museum. Its colour is a…
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