Category: Model Airplane
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RAF Puma – Part Three – Old Faithful
The Colde Wellcombe helicopter hack. When you need to be moved from one miserable part of the country to another, you call out the Colde Wellcombe duty Puma. Bob and Ian are always ready to do their duty, as long as the mess is closed. You may wish to avoid calling them out on Saturday…
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RAF Puma – Part Two – Seats
” You know what, Bob? We’re not flying a helicopter…” Well, what are we flying? ” A bus. We’re flying a bloody bus. Look at that row of seats aft and tell me we’re not just bus drivers. God, I dread it when school comes back…” And so it goes in the RAF helicopter trade.…
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” Stick Your Fingers In That! “
Ya bastards!* The saga of the little RAAF Pilatus trainer continues. My niece arrives tomorrow to collect the model – it is to be taken to Victoria for the graduation ceremony of her son – an RAAF pilot. It’s a copy of the aircraft he made his first solo in. But how to get a…
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RAF Puma – Part One – Vintage Helo
Another Airfix Vintage Classic on the shelf – don’t mind if I do… Yikes – Scalemates says this kit was first released in 1973 and has been steadily re-released with different artwork ever since. It is like a bus on a roundabout – just wait to get aboard until it next circles past… I am…
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The Anti- Camo Stand
If, like me, you like to build model aircraft – and if, like me, you like bright colours… Join the Western Front club. They concentrate themselves upon WW1 subjects and, while the allied planes may be a bit formulaic or muted, the German ones can give you all the colour you want. I concentrate on…
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The Swedish Curse
Cold winters. Long nights. Trapped in the hangar with nothing to do. Add an active crew in the paint shop and an account down the local Bunnings paint department… And there you go. Camouflage schemes that involve 45 different colours with hard lines and geometric angles. And every modeller who wants a Viggen or a…
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Scale Model Envy
Sin in miniature. I rarely give way to envy at the scale model exhibition – even in the competition hall when most of the entries are far better than I could do. But I did come over all goosey when I saw this model of a Cletrac airfield tractor. It appears to be in 1:48…
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” I’m Just Going To Buy A Paintbrush “
I won’t be in the hobby shop long. I won’t look at any new kits. Or tools. Or range of paints. Or die-cast models. I won’t spend much money. I don’t really need anything. I’ll only browse. Just window shopping. Home in fifteen minutes. You’ll never guess what happened…
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Wing Walk
You can identify many aircraft from their side profile or plan view. That is the principle of photo-reconnaissance; look down and count the types. Try it yourself with a Google Earth view of Pima, Akron, or Davis Monthan and see how many you can identify. You can also have fun at the scale model exhibition…
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Don’t Forget The Aerogard…
And the mosquito netting. Otherwise you’ll be bothered to death. Kudos to the SMCWA for their depictions of TV and movie themes in the recent WASMex exhibition. The idea made very good use of models that were already in the member’s collections as well as some new ones made especially for the show. Recognise the…
