Category: Canadian aircraft
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Boeing-Vertol CH 147F Chinook – Part Two – You Want What?
I was taken aback. Normally the makers of plastic models do not expect you to saw them apart as soon as you open the box. Italeri did, though…and it was in a good cause. ‘Cause the Boeing company had made drastic changes to the sides of their Chinook helicopter and Italeri had to follow on.…
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Boeing-Vertol CH 147F Chinook – Part One – The Flying Bread Box
Okay, okay, I know. But that was what it looked like when I opened the box. It is the first of the modern twin-rotor helicopters I’ve encountered and I had no idea what the size of it was going to be. This is the second part of my fee-for-service I earned taking portraits and it…
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Lockheed Lodestar Part Six – Finished For The Time Being…
The Mannix Ltd Lodestar – CF-TDI – will land at Wet Dog Regional Airport tomorrow and be hangared for a space. It waits on the appearance of clear Testor’s decal film in the local hobby shops – there is really no other practical way to get the speed lines and the company logo on the…
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Lockheed Lodestar – Part Five – My Father’s Son
I’ll say this now, at the risk of a haunting tonight – my father had some strange ideas. Not strange as in socially strange or religiously strange – his were more mechanically strange. They were generally a result of a problem that had to be solved, no fancy equipment at hand, and the availability of…
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Lockheed Lodestar – Part Four – The Grey Ghost
Limited as I am to only a half-dozen photos of the actual plane I’m modelling – CF-TDI – I am having to squeeze the last drops of information from each image. The heading one is the chief image I use, as it was evidently taken with Kodachrome in the late 40’s or early 50’s and…
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Lockheed Lodestar – Part Three – But Wait, There’s More…
I am starting to get smarter when I open the box of a new kit – I dive for the instruction sheet. The thing I want to see straight away is the diagram of the sprues with the ID numbers on the bits that I will use and the greyed-out portions that indicate things that…
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Lockheed Lodestar – Part Two – Knifing A Lockheed
Those of you who have never seen me in a tee-shirt may be a little startled at the top image. I am hoping it has that effect on the owners of the construction company that used to own the Lockheed Lodestar CF-TDI…the one I am building at present. I sent them a letter yesterday asking whether…
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Lockheed Lodestar – Part One – Personal Plane
I just barely squeaked into respectability – this column was typed on the 31st of December at about a quarter to midnight. The respectable part was actually starting a kit within the year of buying it. A slow builder, not a hoarder… The Lockheed Lodestar leapt at me from the shelves of Metro Hobbies and…
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Bell Iroquois – Part Three – The Local
When my friend Terry paid his bill in model helicopters I was initially going to make a yellow and red RCAF rescue – sauvetage machine of the modern era – the bright colours were the attraction. The Italeri kit is an excellent structure to do this on – it fit together with minimal trimming of…
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Bell Iroquois – Part Two – It’s ALL Insides
The new Bell Iroquois helicopter is proving to be a series of revelations – occasioned by the fact that I have not seen inside a helicopter since 1961 – and that was one with a giant perspex bubble on the front and a big piston engine. It would appear that the advent of the gas…
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