Category: Colour Schemes
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Fairchild Argus – Part Two – Inside
There are a number of sources of information for the completion of any cockpit: a. The instruction sheet. Good luck there… b. Internet images of service aircraft taken in the past, before colour film was widely available – good luck there again. c. Internet images of current aircraft in museums. Some photographers, like Inch High…
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Sikorsky H-19 – Part One – So Many Choices
The Sikorsky S-55, or H-19 Chickasaw was a helicopter of many armies and air forces. The decal sheet of this Italeri kit provides for France, USMC, USCG, and Royal Navy. Other issues in the past supplied RCN and the USAF. Just a little googling suggests Indian Air Force, Turkey, Israel, and Chile are possible with…
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Boeing B17G – Part Two – Doodle Bug
There are very few steps to the average 1/144 kit – and if you walk fast… You get to the end very quickly. This Academy kit was started on Saturday and finished on Wednesday. That was not a deliberate sprint – it just happened to fall together with very little filling or sanding and a…
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Boeing B-17G – Part One – Academy
Or is that Minicraft? The box for this old B-17 lists both companies and a recent announcement from Academy in South Korea says that the assets of this older American company have been acquired by them. This box looks to be slightly old and slightly squashed and the instructions date the Academy sheet at 1992.…
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MiG 15 Bis – Part Five – Between The Wars
Actually you have to be a lot more specific with the Middle East – which two?. Their wars arrive in succession like buses at Bull Creek railway station – one after another. This colour scheme is said to be late 60’s – somewhere in between the Sinai War and the 6-Day War. I have googled…
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MiG 15 Bis – Part Four – Short John Silver
Been waiting for years to use that line… The choice of the United Arab Republic’s Air Force as the scheme for this MiG 15 Bis was driven by the need to have some counterbalance to my Israeli Air Force collection. The time selected by Eduard for their decals is the early 1960’s – after the…
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MiG 15 Bis – Part One – Czeching Out The Next Stage
A few months ago I purchased an Eduard kit from Hobbytech Toys in Myaree – a Weekend Edition of a Czech crop duster. It was delightful. Encouraged, I returned to HobbyTech one Sunday and picked up a Profi-Pack Edition of this classic Soviet fighter. I wanted to see what differences Eduard would provide. I noted…
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Tasman Airspeed Oxford Mk I – Part Seven – G-AMFJ
Or 2813 of 141 Sqn. This aircraft is counted as an Airspeed Consul – the civilian version of an armed Oxford. It was acquired in 1951 and flown by the 141 Sqn. The type was used as a VIP aircraft, multi-engine training, navigation and radio training, and as a light transport. It lasted only until…
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Tasman Airspeed Oxford Mk I – Part Six – French Silver Grey
The Mr Color pot of French silver grey may have started life as a grey – or a silver… I can’t remember which. Over several years it has been topped up with a dash of whichever sliver I have in the airbrush pot as a left-over – and equally be whatever light grey is swirling…
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