Category: Model Airplane
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No Lincoln
But you can get a model of a Leomontichvskyovic Lemon 8 from Moldovistan at your local Hobbyhell. I cannot decide whether this is because Airfix are not game to invest in a new mould that is not a Spitstangschmitt or whether the name ” Lincoln ” is seen to be too American for the British…
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Drivin’ Miss Crazy
If you ever want to practice your anxiety, I can think of no better exercise than driving somewhere with a scale model in the car. Oh, I hasten to add, that’s a completed model…just tooling home from the hobby shop with a kit in a box plus $ 85 dollars of new paint is no…
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Academy SPAD XIII – Part Four – Buongiorno!
Issa nice-a day for-a the flying! And a nice SPAD serving the Italian air force in WW1. I strayed from the box markings deliberately. The Lafayette Escadrille Indian head will have to wait until another time, as will the native American swastika. I did some research for SPADs with that combination and only found one…
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Academy SPAD XIII – Part Three – Not Goin’ Nowhere
And not surprising – it’s 38º C outside and 43º C in my work shed. I shall be lurking near the beer cooler and doing the final assembly and decal work inside. I praise the luxury of the choice. The ticklish job of assembly with a bi- or tri-plane is the stage at which you…
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Academy SPAD XIII – Part Two – Ick…
Perhaps I am getting too fussy – or watching too many YouTube speakers complaining about sink holes and ejector pin marks. I am starting to see them more and more. Of course some kits make them more obvious than others – the Academy SPAD XIII being one of them. Note the pink spots of sprue-goo…
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Academy SPAD XIII – Part One – Comparison Is The Thief Of Joy
However, I am going to do my best to keep the criminal at bay. My Revell SPAD XIII need not distress itself – this Academy model will look quite different. The model kit itself was a kind gift from a friend and has not been long in the stash before being called forth. I am…
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Airfix Boomerang – Part Four – Classy Vintage
Well, if the Airfix 2023 announcements are anything to go by, it is going to be a good year for Vintage Classics. And if this kit is a sample of what will come along I shall buy the entire range. The result at the end of the build has been all I could ask for…
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Airfix Boomerang – Part Three – Jackson’s Art Mask
Well, in for a penny, in for a pound…I tried the Art Spectrum masking fluid from Jackson’s Art Supplies in earnest. The bottle seems a lot like Humbrol Maskol, except slightly thinner. It doesn’t have quite the strong formaldehyde odour of Maskol, but it’s latex, all right. If you do not clean a brush in…
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Airfix Boomerang – Part Two – Furrows And Fillers
How appropriate – I am writing this post on Australia Day 2023 – about a distinctively Australian airplane. And I’m eating a sausage roll and drinking a XXXX. I may go out and wrestle a crocodile later… The Boomerang has distinctively British grooves in it – down the wing roots and in the tail assembly.…
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Airfix Boomerang – Part One – Back Again
The problem with building CAC Boomerangs is they keep on coming back… Airfix have re-issued their CAC CA-13 Boomerang again in the Vintage Classics line and I am absolutely delighted. I’ve had experience building a Tasman Models resin kit of this plane and lived to tell the tale – this one promises to be a…
The Little World 