Category: Colour Schemes
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Douglas C-47 – Part Four – The Romantic Gooney Bird
Do not adjust your set or your eyes. The green is supposed to look like that. VH – CGQ or ” Honeymoon Express ” was a lot dirtier in her flying days than she appears in the museum. Not a scrap of shine on her in the three photos that appear on the net. I…
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Douglas C-47 – Part One – The Gooney Bird Again
I built a Canadian Gooney Bird a last year as part of my Air World collection – a Burma Biscuit Bomber that has been preserved in the Canadian museums as a flying tribute. That should have finished my fascination with the Dakota/C-47/Skytrain/ Gooney bird for some time. Not a bit of it. I had collected…
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The Home-Made Decals…Part One
Get more home-made every day. We are in the midst of a drought of decal paper in Perth. It may have escaped the attention of the major news channels, but I assure you the effects are being felt in the model airplane world. Particularly in my own little one, as I have discovered the joys…
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Brewster Bermuda – Part Eight – A Lovely Surprise
Well, mustard gas is always a surprise anyway, but this experimental Brewster Bermuda adds a stylish note to it. Not sure if I’m proud to have made an experimental Canadian gas plane of it, but the other options weren’t all that much better. The new technique of masking off the greenhouse entirely and temporarily gluing…
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Brewster Bermuda – Part Seven – Ray Stevens…
Ray Stevens once had a big hit song in which he suggested that everything is beautiful in its own way. I take it that Mr. Stevens never saw a Brewster Bermuda half-way through a camouflage job. I’m building it and I rather like the Brewster airplanes but even so I think it’s as ugly as sin.…
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Brewster Bermuda – Part Four – Well, Why Not
Having decided to convert a perfectly inoffensive Brewster Buccaneer with no purpose in life into a perfectly inoffensive Brewster Bermuda with even less purpose, I am now left with a kit that silently screams for something to call attention to itself Never mind that it has a dual rear machine gun with an armoured shield…that’ll…
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Douglas B-18 Bolo – Part Three – The Museum Ship
Is there any reason the US Army referred to their aircraft as ” ships “? I wondered at that – the US Navy referred to them as aircraft, and that’s not surprising as they would also have had to use the word ” ship ” in other ways…dealing with sea-going vessels. Why did they both…
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Douglas B-18 Bolo – Part Two – Mr Color Super Metallic
I mentioned that bottle of silver last post. The Mr. Color Super Metallic that has just appeared. Well, I bought a bottle because that’s what you do when you take off your blinkers in the paint aisle of the Hobbytech shop. It’s a fatal move, as you will always see something new that you haven’t…
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Douglas B-18 Bolo – Part One – The First Idea Was The Right One
Readers of this column will have seen my report on the Special Hobby 1:72 Douglas Digby Mk I – the RCAF version of the USAAC B-18 bomber. I was thrilled to find that kit and quite enjoyed the building experience – even though some parts of it went down the silly rabbit holes of too…
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Airbrush Designers, Please Take Note
I love my airbrushes now. The first one was a daunting challenge a few years ago but I have progressed since then – acquiring 4 altogether by now. I’m proud to say that using the latest model to spray an aircraft was…a daunting challenge. It is not the fault of the airbrush maker, nor of…
