Category: Modelling Club
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RCAF Wellington Mk II – Part Three – Sub-Assembly Is The Go
When you are building a model in three or four different locations, it pays to view each of these workshops as a separate shop. The real aircraft makers did this – in particular the American ones like Ford who could count on a number of plants in a general area. They assigned a particular sub-assembly…
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A Club Day Need Not Make Progress
If you go to your scale model club expecting that your day will be one of production and artistry… Oy, have you got the wrong vampire… Your club visit is, perforce, a visit to a society of like-minded individuals. The business of scale building is your excuse to go in the door, but you need…
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Times Is Hard And Prices Is Goin’ Up
And that includes all the things we need for our hobby. Except the things that are very, very, cheap – like double-action air brushes. Say what? These double action airbrushes are cheaper than a bottle of MR wine. Our club president sourced them and put them in our supplies display for under $ 22 AUD.…
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Consolidated B-24D – Part One – The Unloved
It started as a bit of a joke amongst club mates. One chap had been given a Revell model of a B-24D made sometime in the 1980’s and everyone who saw it condemned it as unbuild-able. He was so discouraged that he was going to bin it. But then offered it around the table for…
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New Show
Old theatre. The Western Australian scale model exhibition took place this last weekend and a lot of people held their breaths. The long-serving committee that had presented it for many years past ( decades, perhaps… ) had decided to retire and there was some concern that the exhibition would cease. A new committee was formed…
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