Category: Colour Schemes
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Israeli Phantom – Part Four – Kurnas
I get two spellings for this name in google searches, but as a website run by the IAF uses one “s”, I figure I’ll go with that. They’d know. The aircraft is just about to go out on the display concrete at Schmattarim but experts will note that the intakes are empty and there is…
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Israeli Phantom – Part Three – Library Day
The IAF Phantom was ready for decals within 5 days of starting it – fruit of the new serial building program. The secret of successful decals is the gloss surface upon which they rest, of course, and I have learned that by a long series of neglectful errors. And as with many modellers, I’ve gone…
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Israeli Phantom – Part One – A Kind Gift
My fortune is high – a good friend, learning of my ambition to add more modern aircraft to my Israeli desert museum, has donated a fresh Hasegawa kit. It is an E model dedicated to the USAF, but not all that far from Israeli practice, and certainly convertible for my purposes. The real desert museum…
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Douglas Skyraider A-1H – Part Three – VNAF First Fighter Squadron
I pondered about that when I read it on the colour call-out. I always regarded the Douglas Skyraider as a bomb truck attack aircraft. Still, it was armed with four large guns plus the rocket pods so it would not have been a good idea to get in front of it on a busy day.…
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Douglas Skyraider A-1H – Part Two – The Curse
And it is a curse that will spread out to the wider community… Thirty years is a long time – despite what Hollywood says. It is the difference between a starlet being a 10 and being a 2… It is a long time for a set of decals to sit in a damp shed; something…
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RAF Puma – Part Three – Old Faithful
The Colde Wellcombe helicopter hack. When you need to be moved from one miserable part of the country to another, you call out the Colde Wellcombe duty Puma. Bob and Ian are always ready to do their duty, as long as the mess is closed. You may wish to avoid calling them out on Saturday…
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RAF Puma – Part One – Vintage Helo
Another Airfix Vintage Classic on the shelf – don’t mind if I do… Yikes – Scalemates says this kit was first released in 1973 and has been steadily re-released with different artwork ever since. It is like a bus on a roundabout – just wait to get aboard until it next circles past… I am…
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The Anti- Camo Stand
If, like me, you like to build model aircraft – and if, like me, you like bright colours… Join the Western Front club. They concentrate themselves upon WW1 subjects and, while the allied planes may be a bit formulaic or muted, the German ones can give you all the colour you want. I concentrate on…
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The Swedish Curse
Cold winters. Long nights. Trapped in the hangar with nothing to do. Add an active crew in the paint shop and an account down the local Bunnings paint department… And there you go. Camouflage schemes that involve 45 different colours with hard lines and geometric angles. And every modeller who wants a Viggen or a…
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The Bird
In this case, I believe, a Puffin. I was delighted to see that someone entered a model of this bird in the WASMex competition this year. A recent video we made mentioned the kits that were once produced of North American songbirds and asked where they had got to. Perhaps the idea has never gone…
