Category: Model Airplane
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PZL Gull Wing – Part Four – The Brown Gull
The aircraft depicted by this model was a sample put out by the PZL firm to promote sales to other air forces. It seems to have been taken up by a number of Balkan and middle eastern countries and used on both sides of WW2. Whether it was a successful fighter I cannot say, but…
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PZL Gull Wing – Part Three – Those Decals
Okay, let’s talk dirty. I’ll start. Polish and Russian decals. Sorry to be so brutal, but the topic needs addressing. In the past I have wished to address the makers of some Polish, Ukrainian, and Russian plastic model kits and send them the sheets back with suitable curses. The problem has not so much been…
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PZL Gull Wing – Part Two – Polish Plastic
I would love to read a definitive article on the plastics that we encounter in our model kit building. I suppose a lot of it is trade secrets and economic choices, but I think there would be a lot of interest in a scientific analysis of the various styrenes In particular, please give us a…
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PZL Gull Wing – Part One – One Christmas
I get to choose my own holiday presents. The best way to do this is to go to the shops, buy them, and hand them over to the people who plan to surprise me. They do surprise me too – when they reimburse me. This was one of 2020’s lot – a Mister Craft cheapie…
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Please, God, Let It Be The Soda
A cartoon from my youth showed a man on the street outside a liquor store holding two paper bags. The bottom of one had given away and a bottle fallen out – smashed on the footpath. The chap had his eyes to heaven and the caption read ” Please, God, let it be the soda…”.…
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Wait For It…Wait For It…
The state government in Victoria has just announced that it will introduce legislation in 2022 to ban the public display of Nazi symbols in public. This sort of legislation exists in Germany, Austria, Poland, Ukraina, and France and has existed for quite some time. Exceptions seem to occur for museums or other institutions but the…
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Morane- Saulnier N – Part Three – Russian Silver
And Imperial Russian at that. The finest Fabergé egg I could make for myself. The sadness occasioned by ruining a model has disappeared ( though I still have a sin to atone for when next I come to a military vehicle…) and I can start my WW1 collection in fine style. I have avoided this…
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Morane-Saulnier N – Part Two – Simplicity In Silver
The Revell ( NZ ) model of the Morane-Saulnier N monoplane is the aviation equivalent of the spoiled vehicle kit it replaced – so simple in construction as to admit of assembly before painting. The pilot – Dimitri – has been painted separately and can rest in the shade while the rest of the build…
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Morane-Saulnier N – Part One – Off The Horse, On The Horse
I had fallen off the horse. A model that was proceeding well became bogged down with a bad paint choice and nasty wash job – incompatible chemistry. Efforts to rectify it made it worse – parts were bent, then broken. It looked appalling, and I knew that every time I saw the finished product it…
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Matchbox Helldiver – Part Four – The Curtiss Lollypop
Having mastered the Mr. Color range of metallizer paints I do not cringe in fear from natural metal finishes. Indeed I welcome them where appropriate. Thus my delight in the pictures of the prototype Curtiss SB2C rolling out of the factory in the early 40’s. Still early enough to have the pre-war yellow wing. A…
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