Category: Decals
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F-16A – Part One – The Day Of The Dead Decal…
Is there any more disheartening a sight than a sheet of decals that is older than most of your relatives – and even more wrinkled? You stare it it hoping it will come back to life but eventually you bury it in a coffin filled with the earth of its country… and hope that it…
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Convair Atlas D – Part Three – The Beast
The advantage of building to a common scale is the insight it provides you into the relative size of things. Prior to this build I had no idea these first-generation ICBMs were so large. My mind saw the toys of my childhood – the Cape Canaveral set gave totally false impressions. But then I went…
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SNCAN Martinet – Part Four – Swedish Spy
That might seem a bit harsh, but the decal on the side of the fuselage and the Wikipedia entry both identify this post-war aircraft as part of the cartographic services if the Swedish government. They may have flown over Sweden mapping, but they could also have been taking vertical pictures elsewhere. There are several internet…
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Northrop Black Widow – Part One – ‘Tis A Gift…
And ’tis the only thing gifted about me – the ability to attract free model aircraft. This one is from a lady in payment for some Christmas family pictures. Again, it is a case of telling the client the scale I model in and letting them go and pick out something they fancy. So far…
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Timing…
A ticka, ticka, ticka…Good Timing. A tocka, tocka, tocka. If you model by the clock you’ll never go wrong…until Daylight Savings starts or your Big Ben falls off the bench. Then you’ll be back to counting up to one thousand before letting go of the cemented parts. The intrusion of time into a hobby is…
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Revell Sopwith Camel – Part Four – A Terrible Death
But a nice finish…Old vaudeville joke. Laugh now. Please. The Revell kit was never going to be a show-winner, but then that was never going to be me anyway. And I am happy to say that it has turned out rather pleasingly. I’ve compared it to the Academy kit of a Camel built last year…
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Revell Sopwith Camel – Part One – Not My First Rodeo
Nor my first Camel, either. This example is from Friend Paul. The previous one was from Friend Warren. You can become my friend by presenting me with a model airplane, too. The first camel was an Academy model, and I think I should have built this one first, as an old Revell vs a new…
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PZL 23.b Karas – Part Three – Brown Bomber
This post marks a departure – the incorporation of two separate models into one report – this is caused by repeating the build for a separate purpose. Of course they are the same moulding sold from two separate firms, so there is no basic design difference. Both liveries are supported by colour call-out information and…
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PZL 37a – Part Two – Club Time
This PZL bomber was reserved for a club time build and missed out on some of the workshop photos that other builds get. But in the end it came out well. The frontal view of the aircraft tells a unique story – the dual wheels set onto the landing gear legs. It is the first…
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Fokker Eindecker – Part Three – Stick and String
Well, that was a surprise. I actually enjoyed the process of rigging this little fighter plane. It doesn’t have all the wires it is entitled to, but it has as many as I have the patience to attach. The local hobby shop man didn’t have the Ezy-line that I thought was needed but he did…
The Little World 