Category: Model Airplane
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The Bluebird Of Happiness-So-Far
The undersides of aircraft are pretty interesting places. If you are going to be flying in one, you are intensely interested in whether or not oil, petrol, or hydraulic fluid is leaking out down there – you’ll be even more concerned if this is also the case when it is at 4000 ft. For the…
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Not Quite Thought Through Yet
The preliminary work on a model is sometimes the hardest thing to do – and this applies to big scratchbuilds as well as to the humble kit. As well, there is always something that you like doing least of all in the workflow. It can be planning, marking out, jigging, sub assemblies, or repetitive part…
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And So It Begins…
The biggest problem I have encountered so far with the New Special Models 1:72 Northrop Delta 1D has been deciding which model variant to make. Newbies will be puzzled by this but old hands know that fresh kits pull you several ways – and this is not helped by the maker including parts and decals…
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The New Build From A New Maker
This begins a series of posts that deal with building a model from a maker who is new to me – Special Hobby from the Czech Republic. It’s not the first Czech model I’ve tried – I did build two different AZ models recently – but I am desperately curious to see if this is going…
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Too Much Of A Good Thing
Waterslide decals were the wonder of my childhood. I only encountered them in the model kits I built, and since these were kits in the 1950’s, they weren’t all that good. They were yellowed, cracked, thick, lumpy, and inaccurate. They had margins that looked like stranded jellyfish. They took about a half hour to soak…
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Get Down!
Relax – it’s not the dog on the table again. This post is about getting down to your models when you are trying to photograph them. The first photograph I ever took of a scale model was of a Revell 105mm howitzer in about 1:40 scale. I’d saved up for it, sent away to a…
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It Always Pays To Get Sniffy
Recently I was given a bum steer, but fortunately it was not fatal. I’d purchased a silver-coloured paint to spray a small model airplane, and since I normally work in acrylic paints, I wanted assurance that the bottle I’d bought was acrylic. I was told it was. When getting ready for the spray job tonight…
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The Nano Part For The Nanny State
Paradoxically, nano is a big word these days. We see it every time someone has managed to make a smaller machine or discovered a smaller bit of the universe. You’ll see it in all sorts of scientific reports as well as commercial advertisements. Mind you, the makers of confectionery tend to shy away from it…
The Little World 