Category: damage control
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Douglas Skyraider – Part One – Abandoned On The Shelf
Started, but incomplete. Very low price – my kind of kit. And a definite prototype in mind for the finished build. The previous owner had cemented the wing and fuselage halves together and done a pretty careful and precise job of it. The kit is designed so that the cockpit tub slips inside before the…
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Good Ol’ Boyz
Recently I completed a scale model of a Finnish fighter plane from the period of WW2. It was a good kit and the camouflage colours went well; two shades of green on the top and a light blue underside. I was able to add the Finnish Air Force insignia on the wings and fuselage as…
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Am I A Modeller?
Or a Tetris player? This thought occurred as I was shifting cabinets and restringing electric lights in my workshop. There was no real need to do so – the space produced perfectly good scale models prior to this. But, like a woman moving a piano about the living room, I just could not stop myself.…
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Norcanair DC-3 – Part Five – CF-CTD
A nearly good model… The basic structure of CF-CTD is fine – Italeri make a first-rate moulding of this aircraft. The military modeller who makes a D-Day C-47 will be delighted with the result. The invasion stripes should make for a spectacular OOTB build – even though research seems to show that the real stripes…
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What Do You Do When It All Starts?
Starts to go pear-shaped… Make cider, possibly. Or begin to panic. Panic is always a good choice as it gets the circulation going nicely. And you get a lot more done when you are screaming. Some kit builds progress well – they are logical procedures that flow from one to another as the structure matures.…
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Norcanair DC-3 – Part Two – The Inside Seats
Very few paying passengers opt for the back porch seats on the Norcanair DC-3 flights over northern Saskatchewan. At least not after October. Everyone wants to stay inside huddled round the wood stove. To this end I have adapted ten seats gleaned from a Heinkel airliner of the 30’s. The expensive people get armrests and…
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If I Knew Then What I Know Now
I probably woulda forgotten it. I will have to be satisfied with what I am learning. some of the lessons are easy and some of them need to be scraped off the floor. I do watch other people at work on the model bench and on the YouTube screen. I am aware that the latter…
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When The Horse Balks And Throws You
Get up and get back on.* When you make an inadvertent floater in a kit build, finish it and start another as soon as possible. Find a kit that will require you to do the same procedure as before, but this time correctly. Remember the mistake you made and why it was wrong…and when you…
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If You Win Second Place
You resent the person who won first place. The third-place winner detests you both. And the further you get away from the winner’s podium, the deeper the level of hate becomes. That is the nature of contests and competition – you win dislike along with the trophy and the set of dishes. Sometimes winning second…
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Finnish Brewster Buffalo – Part Three – 1945
Let us be delicate about this… In 1945 the Finns were on the winning side of a losing war. Actually several wars. They had fought the Soviet Union on their own behalf, as partners with nazi Germany, and then fought the Germans for their own territory as part of the Allies. It was a situation…
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