Category: Colour Schemes
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Grumman F9F-2 Panther – Part Four – The Simoom
Or is that sirocco? Whichever, it is the hot dry wind that blows nobody any good, and it blew into my workshop the other day. Had I been smart, I would have closed the flaming door… The day was hot, but not the spectacular heat that drives people into air conditioning and makes the newspaper…
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Airbrushing Outside The Box
My learning curve with the airbrush was a bit steep a few years ago. It has become easier lately, but occasionally jags upward again. To be fair, it’s me kicking it up. I continually decide that I need to improve upon proven techniques. Even if I got a good result last time. I seem incapable…
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Grumman F6F Hellcats – Part Three – The Flying Bomb
I wonder if the bright spark who numbered the US Navy drones used in the Korean War deliberately ran them on from V1 to V8? I’ve seen two authentic pictures of V6 being launched off USS BOXER from one of the catapults and it has the V number clearly painted on either cheek of the…
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Grumman F6F Hellcats – Part Two – The FAA
The Fleet Air Arm has always been a thing unto itself. Not quite the Royal Navy but certainly not the Royal Air Force. Attached to the stuffiest of the traditional services but trying to operate the newest of the weapons. While not always given the newest of the weapons. Sort of the ” special ”…
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Grumman F6F Hellcats – Part One – The Cheap Twins
There is no box art to show you with this build; there was no box. The kits that comprise it were left on the table at our modeller’s club with a ” Free to a good home ” sign. I live in a good home… They appear to be part of a three-plane set from…
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Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part Five – A Whiter Shade Of Pale
A confession – I was courting when ” A Whiter Shade Of Pale ” was new on the charts and I tried to be cool by dancing to it. It goes on longer than a Methodist sermon but without the jazzy language or uptempo beat… I hated it then and I hate it now. The…
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Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part Three – Lemme Up Youse Mugs!
I’ll murdalize ya! Just lemme up! The building table was well in use in our heading shot as I sought to get the tailplanes level and even on the Wellington Mk 1C. The fuselage had been cemented with Humbrol Poly tube cement due to an article I found featuring a build of this same plane.…
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Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part One – Sold Down The Aisle
If ever there was an example of successful box art it must surely be this Italeri 1:72 Vickers Wellington Mk IC – successful for me and for the hobby shop. The end flap illustration caught my eye in Hearn’s Hobbies in Melbourne and I was sold as soon as I slid the box down off…
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Who Do You Believe?
Not about religion or viruses or the economy. These things cannot be determined by debate or belief – they just have to be fought over with artillery. I mean who do you believe about paint colours? Specifically, the paint colours printed on call-out sheets in model kits. Every kit has something that pretends to dictate…
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Ilyushin Il-10 – Part Four – The Beast Built
Well, another Mr. Craft aircraft is built. While not as precise as the Fairey Fulmar, the Il-10 has come out well on the side of good. Whatever the makers intended has been achieved. Other reports of this ex-KS kit have pointed out the crudities of the armament, the haphazard fit of the canopy and the…
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