Category: Lacquer
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OD’ing On Olive Drab
Is it just me or is it hard to find The True Meaning Of Olive Drab? I need to paint a number of USAAF planes and I am going to avoid the flashy multicolour of nose art and loud decals. I just want cooking quality Army ships for a diorama. You’d think that Olive Drab…
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Boeing Fortress Mk.III – Part Nine – Not A Good Idea, Max
Well that was a bust, albeit ultimately a successful one. The plan to carefully spray between the lines – with a Tamiya rattle can – was reasonably stupid thinking on my part. You saw in the last column where I just did the overall brown and went on as per normal. The camo lines were…
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Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part Three – Washing Day
I’m gonna hang out the washing on the Mildenhall Line…and so on. Dad’s Air Force musters again. Today is washing day for the two new kits – the Grumman TBF-1 and the Boeing Fortress Mk III. I have beautiful weather for it – bone dry and a very modest 27º C temperature in the shed.…
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MiG 15 – Part Seven – Supercheap To The Rescue
Do you remember my series of tests done to find out which acrylics, enamels, and lacquers would spray best? And the subsequent quest for clear coatings that would let me do decals and then protect the models? Well I looked out my sample tablets today and reassessed them. The local version of a floor polish…
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MiG 15 – Part Six – Was That The Mr. Whippy Van?
And was it playing The Internationale? I don’t normally pay attention to conspiracy theories, but there seems something suspicious about this. Normally we get soft serve, sundaes, and double cones with a Flake bar stuck in the middle. This seems to be a new one… I wonder what flavour – Borscht? Caviar? Fish canned in…
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MiG 15 – Part Two – Bring On The Clowns, Popov
Well, I stared and stared at the colour call-out and decal sheet for the MiG 15 and just couldn’t get excited. The entire outside of the airplane was aluminium colour – with only a little red or blue on a tail or nose. I am not against aluminium colour per se but I’ve recently built quite a…
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I Think We Have A Winner – GSI Creos
Constant experimentation within the model building craft is a two-edged sword. Do too little of it and you never find out how to advance your skills – to too much and you never develop any skill to its maximum capacity before you’ve hared off to another… But occasionally you can get it just right. The…
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North American AT6 – Part Four – Nailing The Colour
I have discovered many interesting things about colour since I returned to scale modelling – both upon the original subjects and on our models: a. The best colour reference is the actual article – untouched by time and not modified by any curators or experts. The fact that nothing is ever this perfect is beside…
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Mitsubishi A5M-2 – Part Two – A Nipponese Quickie
I’m not sure if I should leave money on the mantlepiece. I’ve just had my moment of pleasure and it’s all over. But I don’t regret it at all. Lets face it – building a Hobby Boss fighter plane is never going to be a case of long-term employment. Unless you pace yourself, you’ll find…
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Fairey Fulmar – Part Four – Sub-Lt. Chondomley-Smythe
” Sir? ” ” Yes, Sub-Lt.? ” ” Sir, why to the Yanks call us chinless wonders? ” ” Jealousy, Chondomley-Smythe…pure jealousy. They look upon our Fairey Fulmars with a horrible envy while they are forced to fly their F6F Hellcats and F4U Corsairs. Now glue your oxygen mask on with this surgical plaster and…
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