Category: Canadian aircraft
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The Museum Approach
Go to your local museum – it doesn’t matter what type you choose; art, science, technology, cars, planes, boats, dolls. If you’ve got an interest, go spark it at the museum. While you are oohing and ahhing at the exhibits, look about you at the facilities. The architecture of a museum can be as interesting…
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When The World Gives You Lemons
Make a lemon meringue pie. SImple. This meme business is getting tame… When the world gives you MDF board, Foamcore sheets, and old pieces of matt board you have more of a challenge. The thing to realise about it is that the ingredients essentially cost pennies and anything you do with them raises the value…
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The Speed Build – Good Or Bad?
As a kid I was always trying for more models to build. But as a kid I was money-limited – so what I could afford had to fill in the long dry stretches between Christmas, birthday, or other gift-giving occasions. If a relative tuned nasty and presented me with socks…or a card with their best…
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Convair 440 – Part Eight – Out Past Where The Buses Run
Those of you who are Kinky Friedman fans will know this phrase. It applies to a lot of the work on the Mach 2 Convair 440. Not the least being the choice to eschew the kit decals – big troublesome designs for an airline I do not know – and to paint the thing as…
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Convair 440 – Part Seven – Thinking Outside The Box
Getting a kit that is deeply flawed – or undertaking any other modelling task that is doomed to failure from the start – is a wonderful opportunity to put the prop on coarse, turn on the water injection, and shove the throttle past the military stop. You might as well see what the hell happens……
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Convair 440 – Part Six – Methinks They Doth Protest Too Much
Well fresh from the debacle of a failed paint job and the recovery of spirit when the paint job was partially saved, I decided to launch out on a voyage to the New World of Mach 2 kits – I finally hauled the Convair 440 out of the stash and started to work on the…
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Convair 440 – Part Four – When Life Gives You Lemons…
That meme and its associated parodies running through the brain, I’ve been doing a little research on the Mach 2 Convair 440 kit that I bought. It seems that there are a number of variants of it that share the plastic but change the decals, and a number of companies that have produced custom decals…
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Convair 440 – Part One – The Visitation
I went to a new hobby shop – Hobby Mania. It was up a flight of stairs and shared premises with an accountant’s office. No-wonder – the accountant has the shop as a personal hobby venture. He must be doing well enough – he had an employee there to show me the room of stock…
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Hawker Hurricane Mk II – Part Five – The Newfie
Those of you from the Dominion of Canada will know I speak with affection about Newfoundland – The place where this Hawker Hurricane was based. Specifically at Torbay in 1943 when German U boats were feared. They had successfully sunk ships nearby in the previous year and the RCAF needed to have a quick-response answer.…
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Hawker Hurricane Mk II – Part Three – The Beauty Salon
It was cold tonight. Rainy. I adjourned into the computer room with a portable modelling tray to proceed with the Hurricane in some comfort – the Little Workshop was just too miserable to work in, even with the heater on. The task was masking the pattern illustrated in the Avia publication on Canadian warplanes. I…
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