Category: Civil aircraft
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De Havilland Beaver – Part Three – Beaver On A Stick
When you’re a Cub Scout in the Kootenays, you’ll eat anything… The De Havilland Beaver a’building is using three of my favourite things; Mr Color No. 208 duraluminium paint, 3M double sided foam tape, and plastic clamps from Bunnings. The Airfix kit is slotting together nicely, though you need your wits about you if you…
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De Havilland Beaver – Part One – Leave it To Me, Wally
Those of a ” certain age ” will get it… Those of that samecertain age will recognize the Airfix Vintage Classic Beaver kit as one of the British Army cooperation planes – but will be surprised when they look at the side of the box – it appears to have been used by the US…
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Heinkel 51 – Part Three – A “Civil ” Heinkel
I have chosen this title as a nod to the paint scheme on this Heinkel. I am pretending it was a civilian aircraft. Anyone familiar with the history of Germany at the time this was flying – mid thirties – can draw their own conclusions about what was a civil aircraft and what was a…
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Heinkel 51- Part two – A Sunshiny Grey Day
And as the house-keeping has been done for the week, there is nothing left but the Heinkel-keeping. You are never going to be doing all that much to an early Hasegawa kit – a little filling and sanding where the ejector pins were aggressive, but there is no overweening detail to dismay you. You are…
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Caproni C 311 – Part Three – Civilian Conversion
The conversion of old military aircraft to civilian mode was quite a thing back in the late 40’s and early 50’s. There were a great many spare aircraft left over from the conflict – despite the fact that so many were shot down and wrecked. Careful buying by Ruritanian agents in Europe brought a number…
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Another Bronco – Part two – Dry Fit For The Win
You can get a pretty good idea early on with a scale model kit – whether it is going to be kind to you or slash your face. The OV-10 is one of the former. Here is the thing after one afternoon in the library cutting and painting. The wing has been cemented together, as…
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Another Bronco – Part One – This One Love You Slow Time
Readers can look at a previous post of the North American OV-10A kit I built and compare it to this one – that was just one page – this will hopefully be written on many more. The other plane was a fast build for a purpose – this one uses the same Academy kit but…
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Potez 540T – Part Four – Allons Enfant…
Le jour de gloire is here – under a week after starting…The Potez 540T is ready to fly! The discovery of this long-neglected kit in a back drawer was made last week – It was a kind gift from John, a club mate. It was a classic case of a sleeper – hiding under a…
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Potez 540T – Part Three – It’s A Fish…
But not the sort that you choose to eat – Rick Stein would throw this one back. Dick Stein is not so fussy. The addition of the nose fairing is marginally better than the glass turret, but it has given a deep-sea blobfish look to the poor old Potez – in grey primer it is…
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Bellanca Pacemaker – Part Three – Seams We Need To Fill Something
If you paid more to read these posts, the jokes would be better. The fuselage on the Dora Wings is a model…of course it’s a model…of sturdiness. Once the sides and top come together with some liquid cement and dry for a night the whole is greater than the parts. But there is a discrepancy…
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