Category: Military models
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The Big Local Model Show And The Big Local Model Shows
Actually there are about four Big Local Model Shows during a year…some of them at the same venue as next year’s April/May affair for scale models. The business might be a bit confusing if it were not for the fact that Perth enthusiasts of the various hobbies generally have the things sorted in their minds.…
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The Work-Rounds For Genius Modellers
There is more than one way to skin a cat, but you’d be wise not to tell this to pet owners. However, if you are a scale modeller there are a number of solutions to common problems that appear if you are prepared to think outside the box. Or, in the case of old Airfix…
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The Big Local Model Show For 2022 Is Coming
Well, I for one, am quite delighted. The big local model show for Perth in 2022 is scheduled and has been announced on a dedicated Facebook page. The venue will be the same – the Cannington Exhibition Centre on Albany Highway…the same ground that holds the dog racing track and the Canning Show, plus a…
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Summer And Winter
An opportunity has arisen to make a summer/winter layout – a diorama of a little Soviet airfield in both seasons. It’s to be spread over two bases and is coming together rather nicely. The bases are identical, but the portions of the field featured are different – and in both cases they are general enough…
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Your Cabin Is Ready, Mr. Lincolnski
I am a sucker for good ideas, and I occasionally have them. Not for long, because when I recognise one I immediately change it for a mistake. Not in this case, However… I am building two more diorama trays for the library exhibit – the first two of RCAF WET DOG seem to have worked…
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Play With Their Minds
If you visit museums, exhibitions, and toxic waste disposal sites you can have a lot of fun by playing with the minds of the people who run the places. The organisers, curators, and assistants are scholarly, dedicated individuals who deserve everything that happens to them. Try one of the following: a. Locate a German WW2…
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The Under- Wing Numbers
F/O Prune calling. ” Hey, Look At Me! Look What I Can Do! And No-One Knows It Was Me…! “ On the contrary, Prune. They might not see your face but the buzz numbers on the underside of your wings identify your aircraft – coming and going – and if you have been shooting up…
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Federal 2 1/2 Ton – Part Four – A Nervous Time
The Academy kit of this truck has two build options, differing only in a winch and a machine gun mount on the cab roof. I eschewed this and opted for the version associated with the Red Ball Express. There are plenty of stores on the sprue trees and a big open bed in the back.…
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Federal 2 1/2 Ton – Part Two – If it’s ALL Green…
Is there any need to paint it? Yes there is. Bare green plastic is just that… you can see a mile away when someone puts a model out for display that hasn’t been painted. That’s fine and dandy if it is a display of production models that lets the customers see what it looks like…
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Federal 2 1/2 Ton – Part One – Mojo To The Fore
This is unquestionably a mojo build for me. I stuffed up my last military vehicle badly and saw this one the next day as a saviour in the armour aisle. I do not intend to be as impatient and casual in its build as I was with the failure. I remember these trucks from a…
The Little World 