Category: Model Airplane
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The Anorak And The Typo
One of the exhibitors on our stand at the recent WASMEX model show put out a series of delightful 1:48th scale fighter planes. They were RAAF and Luftwaffe types of the WW2. I cannot say who moulded the kits but by the time they had passed through the hands of the modeller, they were beautiful.…
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I Remember Air Travel…
And that lovely crispy bacon you got before the war… The local airlines used to get a yearly contribution from me to visit Sydney or Melbourne. Not last year, and not this one, and maybe not next year, either…but hopefully some year after that. I hope the Sandowne Park model expo is still going then.…
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Oh, Spit…
I knew I’d do it. I made a report about our group’s stand at the recent WASMEX scale model show and I missed out one of the photographs I’d taken. That’s it in the heading image. It’s a large scale model of a Lancaster bomber that was made and finished by two other chaps in…
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Inspiration
A wise person takes inspiration from others. Thus, some politicians keep the works of Jesse James, Attila, and Torquemada handy for quick reference. Scale modellers, too, can benefit from contemplating the work of others. This is one of the chief benefits of a scale model show – as well as access to sausages on a…
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I Go To The Show
The annual scale model show got cancelled flat last year and very nearly so again this year. Fortunately we lucked it and got to hold the two-day event in the normal venue. The only restrictions were compulsory mask wearing and keeping a safe distance from each other. And no touching the models. I entered a…
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The Newbie – Part Three – There Is No Such Thing
There is no such thing as: a. A completely accurate model. Do it never so well, there will always be a detractor who will pull up an MAP plan from 1959 to prove that you’ve made a mistake. Don’t try to argue the case as their criticism is not intended to make the model look…
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The Newbie – Part One – What Do You Want?
The question of what you want is one that bedevils us all at some stage of the modelling game. It can be as simple as thinking what sort of model – boat, train, car, figure, etc you are attracted to. It can become as complex as a major research project into some specific mark of…
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Douglas Boston MkIII – Part Five – On Ops
Just the one picture of Boston MkIII AL468 in the sunshine – because that was not the place for it. It was after dark when this RCAF intruder did its business under the guidance of Squadron Leader Burton-Giles. He shot down a Ju-88 and earned the swastika mark under the Canadian maple leaf on the…
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Douglas Boston MkIII – Part Four – AK Air
I am hoarding my bottles of AK Air colours for the most important of my Allied builds. This is a foolish mentality, as the paints are still sold by the larger hobby shops in the eastern states…however I am being frugal these days and rationing myself. The business of covering a black-based model is, in…
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Douglas Boston MkIII – Part Three – Black Bottom Baby
And not only black bottomed, but black based as well. I decided that I would be thorough with the Boston. Black basing for the upper structure – though the under surface would be night black and would cancel out any basing. And AK Air real colours for the upper. They spray so well. The black…
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