Category: Civil aircraft
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Miles Magister – Part One – Cute And Clean
Every so often you need to have a change from heavily-armed warplanes or state-of-the-art jets. You need something small and simple and bright. You need a trainer. Of course the real things were all this and more and perfectly able to kill instructors and students who made mistakes…but that is not what I am intending…
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RCAF Avro Lancaster – Part Eight – The Why And Wherefore
Finishing the Avro Lancaster in RCAF rescue colours has called up a series of questions about it as a real aircraft. I’ve no idea whether my answers are correct, but here goes anyway… a. Why did the RCAF have Lancasters? Because they were part of Bomber Command in the UK in the second world war.…
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RCAF Avro Lancaster – Part One – The Second Lucky Chance
Well, you get lucky sometimes. I got lucky lots of times in practice – not so many in my second career. But one of the memorable ones in 2014 was a trip to Japan as a corporate guest. We were hauled around but occasionally let loose in the shops or cafes to give the tour…
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What Is A Senior Model? Part One.
And don’t get funny with the Mick Jagger or Keith Richards jokes…I mean scale models. What do people over 60 want in a scale model kit, and how can they get it? I can speak for myself as I passed that mark twelve years ago, but I am hesitant to decide for others. However, I…
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Grim Reality Vs Grim Fantasy
I am often puzzled at the selection of model kits on the shelves of my local hobby dealers. They’re good dealers and I love them dearly – just as I love the dealers in the eastern states when I visit them. Every one is different but they all have a certain feel to them that…
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Boeing B-17 – Part Four – Bombing A Different Enemy
As soon as I asked Google to show me B-17’s in Canada I got all the old RCAF pictures I had already seen, plus lots of USAAF shots. And then down at the bottom of a long search something new started to pop up. The civilian B-17. A few had been converted to private planes…
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Good Morning, Staff.
Good morning. You may be wondering why I have called you here today. The first thing was to trial the ability of Photoshop to make focus stacking images automatically – a task which it has performed admirably. There are a few errors in the image taken of you but they can be largely overlooked. The…
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Grumman Widgeon – Part One – The Small Goose
The Sherriff’s Mini Cars shelves had some of the best and oddest kit shopping I have been able to do for some time. Stashes had disgorged treasures and/or trash and they were sensibly priced for all that. I have no idea how new the Widgeon is, not how long it may have mouldered on the…
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Seibel Si 204A – Part Three – Airframe Day
Ah, that lovely plateau in the model kit build – when the wings and tail are on and magically you do not have a plastic kit in a box – you have an aircraft. The short run Czech nature of the mouldings having been adjusted with knife, chisel*, and sandpaper and a good set of…
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Siebel Si 204A – Part Two – The Smēr Campaign
I read about the various Czech, Polish, Ukrainian, and Russian model manufacturers as they introduce new kits. The scale airplane press is keen to get us to buy the goods and then aftermarket accessories to tizzy them up – so I wonder if there isn’t a pressure on the designers to put out a rather…
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