Category: Lacquer
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YF23 – Part Three – Trial Duo
Well, it didn’t get the contract. Despite the design and the twin engines of this McDonell Douglas/Northrop, the ultimate choice for the air superiority fighter went to the YF – later – F-22. The two test aircraft were relegated to museum pieces. I suspect that this Trumpeter lkit – a 1999 product – was drawn…
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YF23 – Part Two – Scale Effect?
I have watched videos explaining the idea of scale effect upon paint schemes. They seem to make a great deal of fuss explaining that you mix grey, yellow, or white into darker colours when you are painting smaller-scale models. This is in direct contrast to many manufacturers of trains and cars who want the exact…
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Ardently Argent
There is an El Dorado for all of us. The Spanish Conquistadors looked for a Golden Man. I am not as ambitious – I will settle for a silver airplane. I am driven by memories of shining jets and passenger liners of the great travel age. Not now, when everyone can be crammed into a…
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Boeing Clipper 314 – Part Five – A Soul At Rest
It took an extra week, but the time was worth it. The aggravating mistakes of the first Boeing Clipper 314 have been corrected. The mental image I had of the result has come into focus. I can rest easy. The duraluminium surface has been all I could ask for – taking decals perfectly and keeping…
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Boeing Clipper 314 – Part Four – The Horse
When we fall off a horse we are counselled to get right back on – before we develop a fear that would paralyse us. Sound thinking, and as I was unhappy with the finish of the Boeing 314 DIXIE CLIPPER I considered it advisable to go out and buy another kit…and finish it to a…
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Norcanair Bristol Freighter – Part Four – Mask, Spray…
Rinse, Repeat, repeat, repeat. It’s all your own fault, you know. You chose a scheme that has more than one colour and spurned the maker’s decal sheet. You could have done it as a prototype with bare metal, a works number, and be done in time for tea. But no, you had to pick something…
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CAC Winjeel – Part Four – FTS 1
Point Cook, Victoria. SOOTB rendition of this Winjeel and I don’t think I could be happier with the result. It will form the starting point of a number of RAAF training types – with the occasional side-excursion to an aerobatics team aircraft or the FAC service livery as used on ADF exercises. You have to…
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CAC Winjeel – Part Three – Baking Box
You might think that the cockpit of this aircraft would deserve that nickname. If the pilots were stuck on the cross taxiing strips waiting for something to clear they might be. That is what they always had an Esky full of VB in the back seat. No good dehydrating, is it? The final fit before…
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Fairey Firefly Mk V – Part Three – 60’s Airfix
But not the Bad sixties. This kit fit pretty well – if you remembered to trim round the fuselage locating pins and square off the wing attachments. Only two small sink marks and the centre seam almost good. Not a major filling exercise. The exhaust stacks are glorious but need to be put in before…
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