Category: Model Airplane
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Petlyakov Pe-8 – Part One – Metro’s Bargains
Metro Models In Melbourne have a sale every now and again – chiefly the models that have sat in dusty neglect on their shelves. I take advantage, as I am also dusty and sit on a shelf much of the time… In this case the original price was some $ 60 and they applied a…
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The Dead Blog
There is nothing sadder than a dead bird – unless it is a dead scale model blog. I have followed several of these, though not expecting their demise. They started well, or were going along great guns when I first encountered them…and then just stopped. I cannot know why. Dread tells me that some of…
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Boeing B17G – Part Two – Doodle Bug
There are very few steps to the average 1/144 kit – and if you walk fast… You get to the end very quickly. This Academy kit was started on Saturday and finished on Wednesday. That was not a deliberate sprint – it just happened to fall together with very little filling or sanding and a…
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Boeing B-17G – Part One – Academy
Or is that Minicraft? The box for this old B-17 lists both companies and a recent announcement from Academy in South Korea says that the assets of this older American company have been acquired by them. This box looks to be slightly old and slightly squashed and the instructions date the Academy sheet at 1992.…
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Where Is Your Thunder?
Did someone steal it? Did you give it away, again? Did you look into a modelling magazine or go to a website and find someone has beat you to the punch with their rendition of a scale model kit? Is the Framley-Hopkins ” Regurgitator ” biplane in your stash now just ashes in the box?…
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How Far Down Do The Rabbits Go?
And I don’t mean on the internet. How far down does a scale modeller pursue the business – at what point does the quest for detail stop? How about weathering and appearance? Where does the line of diminishing returns cross that of fatigue? I think it differs with the genre and scale of the models,…
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MiG 15 Bis – Part Five – Between The Wars
Actually you have to be a lot more specific with the Middle East – which two?. Their wars arrive in succession like buses at Bull Creek railway station – one after another. This colour scheme is said to be late 60’s – somewhere in between the Sinai War and the 6-Day War. I have googled…
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MiG 15 Bis – Part Four – Short John Silver
Been waiting for years to use that line… The choice of the United Arab Republic’s Air Force as the scheme for this MiG 15 Bis was driven by the need to have some counterbalance to my Israeli Air Force collection. The time selected by Eduard for their decals is the early 1960’s – after the…
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MiG 15 Bis – Part Three – Tight And Dry
A good thing in scale model kits and row boats. Not as desirable in schoolteachers or bank managers. This Eduard kit has classic tab-and-slot fitting for the wings and peg-in-hole for the tailplanes. In both cases the fit eas very firm – so much so that a little sanding was needed to get the parts…
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MiG 15 Bis – Part Two – The Profi Parts
Well, you could avoid them, but then you’d be wasting your three dollars. I mean the business of using the Profi-Pack parts for an Eduard kit. The difference between the Weekend Edition and the Profi-Pack seems to be masking, decal choice, and a PE brass fret. The kit makers do provide plastic parts as alternative…
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