Category: Colour Schemes
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Stealth Aircraft – Part Three – F117 Nighthawk
Do Not Place In Dark Cabinet… Or you might as well have not built it. This is four parts and a stand, there is no glazing except over the eyes of the modeller. There are few details, but I shall attach a note saying the cockpit is fully detailed. It looks as if it should…
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Stealth Aircraft – Part Two – Painting The No-See-Um
I’ll bet you’re just itching to know what a No-See-Um bite feels like… The colours of the F 117 and the B2 are quite different, though in both cases the paint is part of the circus trick. The night attack aircraft is very dark grey/black and the strategic bomber nearly as dark, but with gradation…
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RCAF Wellington Mk II – Part Five – Night Black
The RAF night bomber scheme is a grim sort of design. Well I guess flying 300 miles in the dark, amongst a thousand other flying bomb dumps, and through radar-directed flak is a pretty grim business anyway. With a German Chancellor at one end and Arthur Harris at the other it seems like a murderous…
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RCAF Wellington Mk II – Part Two – Missing The Point
The new Airfix Wellington Mk II has a full set of interior parts. These are proper injection moulded parts – not resin bits on a block or impossible slivers of brass. If you follow the very detailed instruction diagrams you can end up with a fully kitted-out bomber interior. Yet Airfix suggest that you can…
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Do You Tell The Truth?
I should rephrase that; should I tell the truth? You probably tell it all the time. I would too, if it were a good idea. I used to practice strict honesty when I was in professional work, and quite good honesty when in trade. Now I am retired and writing about scale model making I…
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Douglas Skyraider – Part One – Abandoned On The Shelf
Started, but incomplete. Very low price – my kind of kit. And a definite prototype in mind for the finished build. The previous owner had cemented the wing and fuselage halves together and done a pretty careful and precise job of it. The kit is designed so that the cockpit tub slips inside before the…
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Pitts S2A – Part Two – Canadian Reds
I wonder if someone will pick up on this one at the next WASMex show. Will I get talked to by the committee? Well, we shall see. If they press me I will say that the sponsors are a fine Canadian company that sponsored a team for air racing and never sells dangerous products. Not…
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The Mark II Had The Window On The Left
And they never painted the underside blue. And so starts another anorak dogfight. The two combatants have both seen pictures of the Fosdyke-Heppelberry ” Flapdoodle ” in RAF service and both are convinced that they are the recognised experts on the type. Both are unwilling to give up the title. The pictures they have seen…
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Good Ol’ Boyz
Recently I completed a scale model of a Finnish fighter plane from the period of WW2. It was a good kit and the camouflage colours went well; two shades of green on the top and a light blue underside. I was able to add the Finnish Air Force insignia on the wings and fuselage as…
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Vickers Viscount – Part Four – Smooth Success
My internet enquiries have failed to turn up a list of names given to the Vickers Viscount aircraft flown by Trans Canada Airlines and then by Air Canada – just a corporate change. However they were titled, they seem to have been quite a success on the Northern American routes – passengers noting the smooth…
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