Category: Model Airplane
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Douglas RB-66B – Part Five – Super Snooper
The first B-66 Destroyer I had was a Monogram model with lots of moving parts and a bomb bay that worked. I remember destroying a small city with it. Play was more robust in the 1950’s, I can tell you. But the Italeri RB-66B is no bomber – it’s an electronics warfare and reconnaissance bird.…
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Douglas RB-66B – Part Four – The Butchers Chart
Well, that’s what it looks like – you expect to see terms like ” rump ” and ” chop ” on the airplane in the divisions. As it is, a lot of newer USAF jets have so many stencils on them that you wonder if they are made by Fisher Price. At least in the…
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Douglas RB-66B – Part Three – Knuckle Down
And buckle down and do it, do it, do it… Roger Miller was right – you just have to make the cockpit eventually. This was not as bad as some – the amount of detail was enough to populate the space without demanding excess bending and fiddling. The basic grey could be done with exactitude…
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Your New Year’s Modelling Resolution
You may be feeling a bit queasy this morning after the New Year’s Eve just gone, but that doesn’t excuse you from your duty as a scale modeller to make a number of New Years Resolutions. Here is a list from which you may choose: a. You can resolve to complete the kits that are…
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Douglas RB-66B – Part Two – Postponing The Office Work
Every instruction sheet for a model airplane seems to commence with work on the cockpit. This may be a simple as an old Airfix pilot-on-a-shelf to the most complex brass and resin aftermarket kit. I sort of like doing this are and sort of don’t. So I look around for a way of postponing the…
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Douglas RB-66B – Part One – The Shelf Queen
Some kits fly out the door of the hobby shop as soon as they arrive. Some stay until the sales. Some stay until the owner dies and the executors hacksaw the door open. The reasons for this can be many – the kit is horrible – the kit is so obscure than no living being…
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Slovakian Jigs – Part Two
A hot Boxing Day is the ideal time to do a new cool kit. You are not stressed by work or family commitments and the precision that good work requires is at your fingertips. At least it is if you have not been on the turps for the last week. My Christmas had been abstemious…
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Doing The Slovakian Jig – Part One
I cannot say when my new jig kits were shipped from the port of Pressburg, but presumably it was before the Covid shutdown. My wife was able to order them from BNA in Melbourne a week before Christmas and they arrived in time to sit under the tree. I spent Boxing day with a new…
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Yakovlev 6 – Part Five – A Flying Fin
Not a flying Finn – unless the Finns captured a few of these in the Winter War. The fin is the price that this Encore model cost. And I think it has proved a sterling investment. The green you see here is a lightened and blued form of the Russian Green. The scale effect, perhaps,…
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Yakovlev 6 – Part Four – Jayne Mansfield
Nothing whatsoever to do with this Yak 6 utility aircraft, but Jayne liked the colour pink as well. She would have appreciated the big nacelles… Now that your mind is sabotaged for the day, we will continue. The Amphibious Twins have been painted and are installed in their little bare cockpit. Fortunately the glazing over…
The Little World 