Category: Model Airplane
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Lockheed P-38 – Part Four – The Drive Shaft
The Hobby Boss model of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning has something I have not seen before on any plastic model airplane – it has a driveshaft. Or put more accurately, it has two. All the other models I’ve encountered have had just the opposite – a precise hole in the crankcase or nose where a…
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Lockheed P-38 – Part Three – Every Plane You Build…
Every plane, train, car, and structure you build in scale makes your brain better. The act of turning over the parts, relating them to the instructions, fitting them together, and observing the relationships between the surfaces teaches you far more about the particular full-size object than any photograph or screen representation ever can. And if…
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Lockheed P-38 – Part One – Smile For the Camera
When you go past the new kit shelf at the hobby shop and notice that you can get a 1:72 fighter plane for $ 14.95…but if you add another $ 5.00 they’ll give you an extra engine and tail…well it would be foolish not to go with the bargain. Hence the new Hobby Boss Lockheed…
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When Your Time Has Come…
I was thinking of this question while visiting the local hobby shop – Hobbytech. A Sunday afternoon and just the time one runs out of khaki-coloured paint. No good sitting there and wishing that it would appear in the paint rack – you just have to go out and get it. The hobby shop was…
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Where Was That Blasted XF-68?
Yes, I paint model kits. Yes, I have more than one bottle of paint. Yes, I lose the occasional one down the back of the sofa… Now that I am building more model aircraft kits from different air forces I am getting more paints. Some are direct shades and some are mixtures. I have transcribed…
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Ye Olde Kitte
I went to the swap-meet section of the plastic modelling exhibition a little while ago and looked around. I do that – surreptitious spying is one of those hobbies that you can do with little initial outlay – Just a black cloak and broad – brimmed hat. The dark sunglasses and anarchist’s bomb are just…
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Republic P-47 – Part Four – Value For Money
It’s not cool to be cheap. Every commercial website or advertisement makes it clear to you that you only qualify for the admiration of the world if you spend money. The more you spend, the better you are regarded. This is a wonderful success on the part of the advertising culture – it used to…
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Republic P-47 – Part Three – A Week Later
A week would appear to be a long time in the Little Workshop. Long enough to build and paint the Hobby Boss Republic P-47 and push it off the assembly line. I think I need to remind myself that I’m not under government contract here… The assembly was just as easy as I thought –…
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Republic P-47 – Part Two – Is This A Thing?
Well, the insides of the Hobby Boss P-47 kit were just as good as I expected – with the top-and-bottom fuselage construction and the crisp mouldings. The sprue trees were well-planned, and even if I do not use the wing tanks, I will have them for a future build. Basic fuselage has a very peculiar radio…
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Republic P-47 – Part One – The Gangster Connection
I try to find a connection for my models – and this one is going to tie back to my father and a childhood friend of his – Hubert Zemke. They were kids in Missoula, Montana at a time when a German name and a German family brought insular righteousness down on you. So I…
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