Category: Model Airplane
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Beat The Designer
Outwit Fokker, de Havilland, and Sopwith. If you take photos of WW 1 aircraft, you likely miss out on some of the best colour if you fail to use a flash. The design of a bi or tri-plane means that the fuselage is covered by the upper wings – any shots taken from a standing…
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Who In Their Right Mind
Would line up to buy old model kits? I don’t know. Because just after I shot this panorama ( not a complete one, mind…) I joined the end of the queue. It was like the Oklahoma Land Rush, but in styrene. Some stash sales are sedate affairs. Discretely attended by studious enthusiasts who quietly murmur…
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Soviet Hound – Part Five – ” I Have Maybe Helicopter “
” You need use maybe helicopter ? “ Drive truck to back of tarmac and have roubles in briefcase. Just you and barrels. Wait a minute. You pay for three barrel to fly. I count – here is six barrel. No labels on barrel. What inside? What you mean, ” Never mind? ” . Never…
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Soviet Hound – Part Four – It Is Never Open And Shut
It used to be – in the dear old days of Airfix and Monogram. You could buy a model kit that did things. Ailerons moved. as did flaps, elevators, and rudders. Canopies slid back over cockpits and wheels retracted into wells. Occasionally a bomb bay door opened and something fell out. It was all over-scale…
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Soviet Hound – Part Three – Delicacy Rears its Ugly Head
Or is it a frugal conscience? Or just inability to mix paint right? I wondered this as I inspected the Mil 4 model this week after spraying the grey undercoat. I had run out of Base White 1000 – my preferred undercoat for models that are going to be white or yellow – and was…
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Soviet Hound – Part Two – A Day’s Work
Since I retired a second time I have been busy being idle. It is a damned hard thing – you no sooner turn around than another thing falls off the house or someone comes to the door bleeding. It is no good slamming it shut and heading for the drinks trolley – eventually they will…
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Soviet Hound – Part One – A Working Dog
The Mil Mi-4a Hound seems to have been a general-purpose worker for the old Soviet Union from 1960 until the late 70’s. It is boxed by Trumpeter in a larger scale but Hobby Boss offer it for 1:72 in a very precise moulding. Four sprue trees, a colour call out sheet for the USSR and…
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The Richest Kid On The Block!
Possibly in the whole town! I’ve got 27 model kits ready to build. They came from friends, family and pocket money. I’ve got enough cement for all of them, and enough paint. School is out, and has been since 1972. Employment is done, and has been since 2016. I do not have any homework due.…
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Mirage 2000C – Part Three – Retired Delta
Or so it says on the internet. At the same time there are plenty of pictures of this type in the air forces of secondary nations. I’ll bet it turns up in Africa and South America for decades – rocketing and gunning down rebellious tribesmen or junta colonels. I am delighted with the colour scheme…
