Category: Colour Schemes
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Curtiss Hawk Model 75 – Part Four – Painted Insignia
The business of painting insignia on full-size aircraft must be fun. Obviously a stencil situation and I’ll bet the paint crew are all frustrated car customisers. It explains some of the commemorative schemes that appear on service planes. I’ve seen it done by a number of people and they all say that it has great…
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Curtiss Hawk Model 75 – Part One – Good Fortune
I am blessed with good fortune; a loving family, a comfortable retirement, a mind that still feels enthusiasm. I am also blessed in friendships. One of these friends read my post about trading scale model cars to make space for scale model airplanes and stepped in to make the situation ever so much worse… In…
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Beech AT-11 – Part Three – Never Ever
Never ever throw away the extra parts that accumulate as you build your kits. Save them, separate them, and catalogue them if you have time. At least have a good look in the boxes occasionally to remind yourself what you have. Remember modellers have a seventh sense that other people do not have – the…
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Beech AT-11 – Part Two – Silver Wings
I was always impressed with the US Army Air Force when they decided to strip the olive drab and neutral grey off their ships and just polish the aluminum* skins and send them over Germany and Japan like that. The period reports cite a 5 knot increase in speed occasioned by a smoother outer surface…
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Focke Wulf 190A – Part Four – Et Voila!
Voici le NC900. Produit de l’SNCAC a Cravant en France. This is a product of the S.N.C.A.C. from parts and items found in a disused chalk quarry in Cravant near Auxerre in the centre of France. These were made up after the war as an interim squadron for the French Air Force – some 20…
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Focke Wulf 190A – Part Three – The Internet Evening
When you want to build a kit straight out of the box, the first thing you do is cut the seals and open the box. When you want to build it to a different variant the first thing you do is go to the computer and open Google. It is the source of much of…
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Focke Wulf 190A – Part One – Spoiled For Choice
Wobbling through Google the other day I discovered a colour scheme for the Focke Wulf 190 fighter plane that looked quite interesting. It has little to do with any boxed kit, but I can get other decals and paints readily. All you need is reference material and the inspiration. But what kit to get? There…
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Covid Painting
The year-long Covid pandemic has been so tragic for so many that it seems nearly a sacrilege to mention it in connection with a hobby – but it has led to a drought in the paint aisles of many hobby shops. Oh, there’s paint still, as not all the makers have ceased sending out their…
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Mitsubishi Peggy – Part Nine – Trials Ship
I wish to compliment Hasegawa on this model – it has been one of the most well-balanced builds undertaken in a long time. The glide bomb fitted perfectly into the open bomb bay – the doors of which were made to swing inwards . All this was provided in the kit parts and was very…
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Mitsubishi Peggy – Part Eight – To Gloss Or Not To Gloss
That is the question. Do I risk putting decals on a paint surface or do I run over it entirely with Mr. Color 47 and wait until I have a clear gloss cover? I think I have made enough alternate decisions and mistakes with this matter to be able to dictate what to do –…
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