Category: Miniature Philosophy
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Heinkel HE 111 – Part One – Welcome To The Rafwaffe
Yes, you read that right. Rafwaffe. Specifically 1426 Flight RAF. The unit that took captured and abandoned German equipment and tested it for the RAF. At Duxford and RAF Collyweston. They got one of the Heinkel 111’a that had been downed to a soft landing early in the war over the UK and repaired and…
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Don’t Tell Anyone…
In my other three weblog columns I used the lockdown earlier in the year to write about the business of social distancing, working from home, getting supplies, and being brave and stouthearted. I didn’t give it a tinkle here in the Little World – and it wasn’t until I watched the Flory Vlog that I…
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Someone, Somewhere…
There are statistics freaks all over the world – my weblog columns occasionally attract the attention of them when I mention some chart or set of tables. My email clogs for a week with mathematical proof of the existence of carrots. I am philosophical about it – it’s just email and somewhere somebody has to…
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Boeing KB-29A – Part Nine – Flying Gas Station
I must apologise to the readers for not being able to show the standard five views of a new aircraft in this report. The KB-29A in 1:72 scale is just too big for my standard photo table to accommodate in 3:2 or 16:9. I’ve had to resort to a 16mm lens and 1:1 format to…
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Boeing KB29A – Part Seven – Multiple Models
No, this isn’t about those kits that promise you two, three or more finished models from the kit. I admire them but will not pay the price they cost. Plus I fear getting bored with the process when finishing the third variant out of a pack of eight. I write of making multiple models in…
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I like Being An Escaped Idiot
It lowers people’s expectations and allows me to wear comfortable clothes. No-one asks me to pay for the next round of drinks and I can say pretty nearly anything I like. Occasionally the canvas waistcoat chafes at the back, but. I am a little dismayed when it overlaps into my hobby time – when folly…
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Satisfying The Judges
When you next go to a scale model exhibition see if there is going to be a contest at it – apart from the fights between the customers and the shops. Something that has models on display and judges marking them. Look particularly closely at the table with the prizes on it. They may be…
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The Kiss Of Death
If you would like to destroy a commercial firm – to lay waste to its factories and plunge its former employees into miserable poverty, you must follow this simple procedure: Buy one of the products that they make. Try it and find that it is excellent. Become proficient in its use. Expect that you’ll be…
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Vega PV-2 Harpoon – Part One – The Mistaken Assumption
I am subject to misapprehensions from time to time. They generally don’t result in disasters, but they can mean that I miss out on good things. I can remember several occasions as a young man when I did not read the signals correctly and passed lonely Valentine’s Days. It all worked out perfectly in the…
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Seversky P-35 – Part Three – That Yamaguchi Moment
Well, that’ll teach me…but I am not sure what. I was going so well with my Special Hobby Seversky P-35 model. I had used most of the photo etch in the cockpit successfully and even managed the photo-etch aileron horns on the underside of the wing. And the new Super-Metallic Super Silver from Mr. Color…
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