Category: Canadian aircraft
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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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Hawker Hurricane Mk II – Part Two – Ahhhhh, Chooo!
Oops. Sniff. Looks like it is all together…. Well, it almost seems like that with Hobby Boss. You sit there idly scraping down a seam line…that is nearly perfect anyway…and then you dry fit a couple of parts and then you decide to glue one in… And the thing is done. It’s not quite that…
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Hawker Hurricane Mk II – Part One – How Do You Gild A Lily?
It must be increasingly difficult for planners in the Chinese model making industry to think up what their next move is going to be. a. Which model shall we make – an old favourite in a new box for another 3 years of decreasing profit or a new venture that might become a cash cow…
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Bristol Benheim Mk I – Part Four – The Museum Aircraft
So why does a Bristol Blenheim Mk I bomber – a quintessentially early war RAF light bomber – show up in the Bomber Command hall of Stein’s Air World? I mean apart from the fact that there was a kit on the shelf at Stanbridge’s Hobby Shop and I had money in my pocket… If…
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Douglas Dakota – Part Four – X
I think this was the best introduction I could have had to the Italeri brand of model kits – It had everything; good moulding, sensible build complexity, good material, and an economical price. The fact that it fits into my time period, nationality, and historical significance is a bonus. Plus there are numerous internet images…
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Douglas Dakota – Part Three – If They’re Not Shooting At You…Paint
There are many reasons for camouflage paint schemes on aircraft: a. A disrupted earthen top pattern prevents the enemy from seeing the plane from above while it is parked on the ground. b. A solid blue or white top pattern can also prevent the enemy from seeing it from above when it flies over water…
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Douglas Dakota – Part Two – The Wonderful/Horrible Net
My determination to build a Douglas Dakota in Canadian markings was aided wonderfully/horribly by the internet. It was able to tell me exactly what I did and didn’t need to know, but unfortunately did not put a divider between the two types of information. It’s sort of like trying to read a modellers Talmud…except you…
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Douglas Dakota – Part One – Ooh, It’s Started…
Okay, okay, I know. It’s just another 1:72 DC-3/C-47/Dakota. But it’s my plane and my workshop and my weblog column so I have a right to be excited. Particularly since I found a bargain. The kit is Italeri and has been out for a while. It sat on the hobby shop shelf next to other Italeri…
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Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke – Part Four – The Coastal Command Wing
I have been delaying publication of the Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke final photos for several reasons; the weather is cold, the paint is slow to dry, and I have been making mistakes. Fortunately, not the sort of errors that are irreversible. The colour scheme of the Bolingbroke is taken directly from the Avia book I mentioned in…
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Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke – Part Three – Are We Hobbyists Or Detectives?
I bought the Avia book about Canadian aircraft of WW2 on a whim at Hylands Bookstore in Melbourne earlier in the year. Hylands is a peripatetic purveyor of printed matter – I have been to 4 of their premises in the CBD of Melbourne over the decades and each time it has been a unique…
