Category: Czech models
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Shaky Legs, Don’t Just Stand There…
And bite that trembling lip. A good idea has just surfaced. Model airplane kit builders can access any number of specialized kits and parts these days. If you find something crude in the box, you just keep shopping until you find a Czech firm that have made a better replacement part for it. Of course…
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Well, Boys, I’m Sticking To My Workbench
Yet again. Where the hell did that patch of superglue come from? I claim no record for the number of times that I have inadvertently adhered to the furniture. Not that I wouldn’t get it, but it’d be nothing to be proud of. It shows a triumph of sloppiness over organisation – but at least…
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Lockheed Lodestar – Part Three – But Wait, There’s More…
I am starting to get smarter when I open the box of a new kit – I dive for the instruction sheet. The thing I want to see straight away is the diagram of the sprues with the ID numbers on the bits that I will use and the greyed-out portions that indicate things that…
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Can We Be Too Fussy?
Yes, we can! We’re scale modellers and fussy is what we do. If you want lackadaisical go down the hall to the Morris Dancing Club – they drink and they don’t care. Scale modellers, and their disreputable cousins, the Lego builders, do fuss a lot about little details. We want the model we build to…
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Well Sir,…
The business of looking for scale models to build in a particular size is one thing. Finding aircraft to suit a particular air force is another. And getting a particular period of time… I always look for 1:72 RCAF WW2 through to 1966. To the great credit of the model kit companies, I can sometimes…
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The Nakajima Nate
Or Nakajima Ki-27 if you want to be technical. This one slipped through the studio without being photographed on the sprues – but that happens sometimes when you get distracted and are anxious to start doing something. It was a Sunday afternoon visit to an old hobby shop that started it – the shop is…
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Oh Sheet, It’s the Instructions…
I am fairly bright for a dim person. I can play Scrabble and do connect-the-dots puzzles. I have, on occasion, found Wally. But I struggle with the instruction sheets for the model airplane kits. It was not always thus…in the 1950’s and 60’s the instruction sheets for the kits seemed to be a lot easier…
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The Aftermarket Kit
Or how to spend money with both barrels. I have now started to take a scale modelling magazine each month at the local newsagency. This is great, because I was starting to lose faith in the publishing industry there for a while. I would run the racks and find nothing that could hold enough interest…
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Supermarine Spitfire Mk XIX – Part Two – ” Well! Excuse Me! “
Oops! Sorry, madam. I have intruded upon you while you are in a state of composition. One might take pictures of a lady in a state of undress, but one should never do so when she only has half her make-up on. I seem to have caught the new PRU spitfire with putty in her…
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Out Of The Box
” Oh he’s just built that out of the box “… If you ever hear this you are entitled to sneer, but be careful where you direct your lip. The speaker is using the word ” just ” to belittle the modeller. There is a suggestion of lack of skill or imagination. Possibly a financial…
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