Category: Lacquer
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Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part Five – A Whiter Shade Of Pale
A confession – I was courting when ” A Whiter Shade Of Pale ” was new on the charts and I tried to be cool by dancing to it. It goes on longer than a Methodist sermon but without the jazzy language or uptempo beat… I hated it then and I hate it now. The…
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Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part Four – Mr Ghost
Are we ever ready for the undercoat in our lives? Probably not…but when we make model kits there comes a time when we are definitely going to have to reach for the spray. I say that as an airbrush user, but I think the rattle can people are in much the same boat. I have…
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Who Do You Believe?
Not about religion or viruses or the economy. These things cannot be determined by debate or belief – they just have to be fought over with artillery. I mean who do you believe about paint colours? Specifically, the paint colours printed on call-out sheets in model kits. Every kit has something that pretends to dictate…
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Ilyushin Il-10 – Part Four – The Beast Built
Well, another Mr. Craft aircraft is built. While not as precise as the Fairey Fulmar, the Il-10 has come out well on the side of good. Whatever the makers intended has been achieved. Other reports of this ex-KS kit have pointed out the crudities of the armament, the haphazard fit of the canopy and the…
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Ilyushin Il-10 – Part Three – Sleeker Than You’d Think
My stable of Soviet fighter planes of WW 2 is very small – one Yak and one Lavotchkin. Not even a MiG yet. But they all seem to share a similar look – the look of fighters that have been developed by people who don’t quite know what the shape should be. Oh, they are…
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Wait. What?
I have just been given a conflicting story and am in the process of processing it. Pardon the odd sounds coming from my brain. Some of them are gas and some of them are suspicion. The basic problem surfaced a few months ago when I went to my local hobby shop to get another bottle…
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Gloster Meteor F.1 – Part Four – The Bomb Buster
The Gloster Meteor F.1 is done. And I couldn’t be more pleased with a new kit maker. Dragon Models is a winner in my books – with only a very few slip-ups during the entire process. I shall now look them up in the net to see if there are any more 1:72 items they…
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Gloster Meteor F.1 – Part Three – Just Outta The Paint Shop
Well, it has been a couple of days. We are in spring*, which means we should be getting warmer weather soon. But we also get the tail end showers of winter with the ensuing bad paint conditions. So I have been dodging in and out of the Little Workshop catching my opportunities as they arise;…
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Avia S-199 – Part Six – A Messer By Any Other Name
As soon as I saw the photographs of the Avia S-199 in Czechoslovakia and then later in Israel I knew someone was fooling with me. The propellor gave it away. It was a cartoon propellor from a Daffy Duck movie. I mean, who would put as big a prop on a plane like that…? Well…
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Avia S-199 – Part Five – ” Daddy, Why Is that Man Swearing? “
” He’s an aircraft modeller, Dear, and something has gone wrong. ” The something started out going right. I managed to print out a sheet of Magen David emblems on the epson on strips of masking tape. I then transferred the tape to a cutting board and carefully made the roundels and the stars as separate…
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