Category: Colour Schemes
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The Lively Imagination
Also known as the cop-out. Our club motto is ” True To Life – True To Scale “. It is a stirring thought, and has undoubtedly been arrived at through much heated discussion. Like all mottos, it is obeyed in reality sometimes, in spirit sometimes, and in the bin at others. There are models built…
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Fokker Eindecker – Part Two – Is This Thing Actually Lego?
You might be tempted to think so as you assemble it – the squareness and the simplicity. Antony Fokker was a genius, no doubt – he could get the most out of the material available to him by seizing upon the simplest of forms. It apparently had a workable synchronising mechanism for the Spandau machine…
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Cessna Dragonfly – Part Three – ROKAF
The dragonfly is ready to go into the collection and I am delighted with the choice of ROKAF. I shall complete more for this division in the future. The scheme for this plane’s upper works is as much a nuisance as any other tri-colour pattern. Whether it is French, Soviet, or whatever, I always instinctively…
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Cessna Dragonfly – Part Two – Weighty Nose
You only have to forget once to weight the nose of a three-wheeled plane to impress it on your memory forever. And there is no effective way to excuse it when you are faced with the fact – other than accepting your fate, putting the wheels up, and the model on a flying stand. I…
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Farman NC 223.3 – Part Seven – L’Éminence Grise
By the time a large scale model gets to the Mr Surfacer 1000 stage I no longer have any authority over it – the command structure is reversed. In a way, it is comforting to surrender the initiative in this way. Oh, there will be patching and sanding and other attendances but the die has…
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Farman NC 223.3 – Part One – A Packet Of French Letters
Specifically, SNCAC NC 223.3 B.N.5. Hereafter referred to as the Farman – it’s the only one in the stable so I don’t need to be specific. This Azur kit promises to be several weeks worth of advanced building – it is definitely short-run but of the better sort. There are only the vaguest of interior…
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Dornier Do-17Z – Part Six – Discrete Dornier
The Finnish Air Force roundels on this Post-War Dornier seemed a little small when seen in the illustration. They were also depicted this size on another modeller’s effort…so I finally had to accept them as real. The colours of this ex-Luftwaffe aircraft were very close to that of the German Air Force in the late…
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Dornier Do-17Z – Part Four – Kenttävihreä
Gesundheit. Here, have a tissue. It actually means Olive Green and the information sheet I have assigns an FS number to it: FS34096. There are the numbers on Mr. Color paint jars as well as those of other makers, but none seem to be exactly the same colour. I have elected to try my luck…
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Gloster Javelin FAW 9 – Part Four – Bang On
I’ve banged on about this before and I’ll bang on about it in the future – the use of a good jig or model support system is wonderful. Mine are from Vertigo Jigs, Slovakian-made and available through BNA here in Australia. I’ve got the WW2 fighter jig and the modern jet jig. The Gloster Javelin…
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S.P. – Part Six – A Dollar
I have never spent my money better. Even if it was only a single coin. The Mirage company may be big or little, but whichever, they make a good product. This unexpected purchase has proved to be successful, and will form the basis of an entire museum. The model is not without flaw. Anyone trying…
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