Category: Colour Schemes
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Fairchild Flying Boxcar – Part One – The Gift Horse
I am either the best father in the world or the worst one. The decision will not be mine, though I would like to be told so that I can dress appropriately. The chance to be best came when my daughter was an airplane enthusiast a few years back ( she still is…) and took…
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Good Local Advice
I am benefitting today from the fact that this column automatically circulates out to our local social media network. One of my friends has seen the recent post regarding paint and has responded with what i needed to know. He mentioned in a Facebook reply that many paints have more than just evaporation happening as…
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Thin, Thick, Or Solid
I cannot get a consistent answer from other modellers on a question about paints and varnishes. Not surprising – it is the part of the hobby that seems to have the most variability and the opinions echo the numbers of paint products and processes avaiable. Here’s the question – is it good, bad, or ugly…
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Curtiss Tomahawk – Part Three – New Mistakes
I am going to learn every trick in the painting book by making every mistake in the painting book. But this build’s blunder was a very minor one that yielded to the simplest of repairs. I needed a red fuselage band just in front of the tail assembly for the AVG P-40. Loathe to try…
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Curtiss Tomahawk – Part Two – With Teeth
I am shameless. Absolutely shameless. I am abashed to admit how shameless I am… I stole images off the internet. And I did not pay anyone for them. I needed a shark mouth for a Curtiss P-40 plus a set of Nationalist Chinese roundels and I just went to Google and found one. If you’re…
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The Mini – Wagner…Or How To Make An Atomic Mess
Some people outside of Australia may not know the Wagner spray guns and rollers. They are devices sold in DIY shops that are intended to make house painting easier. The TITANIC was a boat intended to make ocean travel safe… Wagners do work. I painted the inside of a house with one about 40 years…
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Piasecki Flying Banana – Part Four – I Love it…
I love it when a plan comes together – and equally when a collection of sub-assemblies can be piled into each other to yield a finished product. The last day building on a project is always a surprise. For some people it slows down – like a video of dogs catching frisbees – and for…
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Piasecki Flying Banana – Part Two – My Ambition Acheived
I have nursed an ambition for some while – ever since I saw pictures of a number of western helicopters that had red troop seats. The seat backs seemed to be made of red nylon webbing and hung loosely over solid fabric bottoms. I suspect they were a dual purpose thing – the solid cloth…
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Piasecki Flying Banana – Part One – You Had Me At…
They had me at the name – ” Flying Banana ” is not something that you can pass by in a neutral fashion. You either love it or hate it. I have fond memories of these helicopters as Revell kits in the 1950’s. This one is Italeri – itself a recommendation – and when I turned…
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The Gift Buffalo
And you never look a gift buffalo in the mouth… This little gem was left on the modeller’s table at the club one week along with another 1:72 model under a sign: ” Free, please take “. I didn’t feel I could make good use of the other Japanese airplane but I knew that the…
The Little World 