Category: Model building club
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Dassault Ouragan – Part One – Right To The Door
This is one of the kits that was brought to our model club by a chap selling a stash – though another member has suggested that they were the result of a trip to the orient and a suitcase full of plastic brought back home. Some people think this an imposition on the builder –…
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Mitsubishi Ann – Part One – Newcastle Day
As they sang in The Newcastle Song; ” Don’t you never let a chance go by, Lord Lord…”. And I didn’t. At the Tuesday Mens Shed modelling meeting a senior modeller ( I love saying that… ) came in with five roller boxes of model kits to sell. He is obviously clearing out a stash…
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Mitsubishi Peggy – Part Five – Airframe Day
Well, the Peggy is closed up and winged. Airframe day passed successfully. I do not decry the Czech makers of short-run kits for their economies of production – at least I do not condemn them too much. I appreciate the fact that they bring me things I could otherwise never have. But I do miss…
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If You Don’t Build It, Who Will?
The topic of the most expensive kit…or the rarest kit…or the best bargain kit…has been raised on the Flory forum recently and the team assessed their experiences with these categories. They have had access to far more than any of us, yet they speak about kits that seem somewhat pedestrian. It is most noticeable when…
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Don’t Tell Anyone…
In my other three weblog columns I used the lockdown earlier in the year to write about the business of social distancing, working from home, getting supplies, and being brave and stouthearted. I didn’t give it a tinkle here in the Little World – and it wasn’t until I watched the Flory Vlog that I…
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Boeing KB29A – Part Four – Interesting Times
And we’re livin’ in them alright. I hope we keep on livin’ The KB29A was my Mens Shed model club project and I vowed to only do it when I was at the clubrooms. The bastard Wuhan Plague put a stop to that. But I decided to keep my vow…virtually – I would model in…
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Boeing KB29A – Part Three – The Guts
The Academy kit for this KB-29A has just the right mixture of detail and space for a good 1:72 build. Any less would be sketchy and any more superfluous. The cockpit, fighting compartment, and tail gunner’s position have been mostly completed in one modelling week – spread out over two club mornings. I’ve decided to…
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The Display Trays
The first batch of display trays has come out well. You remember I wrote about the breakages inherent with moving modes about a club showroom during maintenance. Well these trays are designed to reduce this for my models. They are convenient digital paper sizes; A3+, A3, A4, and 5 x 7. Did experiment with the…
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The Awkward Sound
The awkward sound of scale models breaking is one that you never want to hear, but that you are bound to encounter at sometime in your hobby career. If you are lucky, it will be you breaking your own kit, and no one else involved. Unfortunately there is more than one kind of luck. I…
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The Sanest Inmate In The Asylum
Whenever I look at what I am doing and wonder whether I have slipped the surly bonds of sanity, I compare myself to others in the same position. At the plastic model club Christmas BBQ I fell into conversation with a man who… Has 38 plastic model kits of 1:72 Feisler Storch aircraft. Because he…
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