Category: Colour Schemes
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Aichi Val – Part Two – Not Quite Tamiya
I was a bit premature in my assessment of the Fujimi kit of the Aichi Type 11. It is closer to Monogram than Tamiya. The flash encountered was not too bad – nothing that knifing and sanding could not deal with. The location pins were in the right places. Yet the fuselage halves fit only…
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Fujimi Aichi Val – Part One – Oh Boy Oh Boy Oh Boy
I finally got to build a model of an airplane my uncle Jack shot at on Dec. 7, 1941. Fujimi kits are thin on the ground here in Western Australia at the best of times and these aren’t the best of times. But a shelf of them turned up at the local shop and I…
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CT-155 Hawk – Part Four – Wayne And Gordie
It looks as if our two favourite Canadian pilots – Wayne And Gordie – have a new mount. The BAE CT-155 Hawk is on the line at Moose Jaw and the new commemorative scheme is finally done. The stencilling and decaling took two weeks, though this is because it was a club build and we…
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CT-155 Hawk – Part Three – Commem
Or a tive. The colours of the Hawk are meant to echo those of an RCAF bomber squadron in WW2. As this is a NATO fighter trainer, I think it an odd choice, but I’m not the politicians or the paint shop. I just follow along. The top is a mix of a Mr. Color…
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CT-155 Hawk – Part Two – First Mistake
First mistake was not reading the colour call-out fine print – and painting the wheel wells the wrong colour. A tiny print panel says they are all white inside. I painted them grey, same as the cockpit. ( The cockpit is correct. ) Fortunately this can be taken to mean I have primed them with…
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CT-155 Hawk – Part One – Idly Interneting…
I drifted past the RCAF historian’s site and glanced at the trainers – in this case at the new ones. The BAE 100-series two-seat Hawk seems to have been a hit with the RCAF as an advanced fighter trainer. I looked at Scalemates and was encouraged to see that AIrfix make a new kit of…
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Lockheed Hercules – Part Seven – Too Big For The Studio
But not too big for the runway. You’ll be seeing more of the CC-130 Hercules when it lands at Wet Dog Regional in the future – there is enough space around the plane to show all its fuselage and wings. In the meantime you’ll just have to make do with the little studio shots. The…
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Lockheed Hercules – Part Six – Three Tones of Torture
It is difficult for me to express how much I detest the designer of this colour scheme. I know that he or she must exist, but did I have my way, they would shortly not. If I were a freehand camo sprayer all this would be simple. Three pots of Mr. Color and a pleasant…
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Lockheed Hercules – Part Five – Paint By Numbers
The Bob Ross School Of Aircraft Camouflage Or how I learned to hate the RCAF airframe finishers. Because they used three colours on the CC-130. They only did it this one time, but that was one time too many. The three-grey camo for this plane is a one-off. It was apparently thought to be something…
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Lockheed Hercules – Part Four – The Office
But it may, or may not, be official. It’s hard to tell. I do like accuracy in aircraft. When I am a passenger on a commercial jet I applaud accurate navigation and safe landings. Yet I can be led astray easily when constructing my models and it often doesn’t bother me. Thus I can read…
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