Category: Modelling materials
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Use the Dull Blade…
Said no modeller, ever. Yet we all do it. We use the blade until the tip breaks off and the edge has tram lines on it and we need to push it 300 times harder to get it to cut. And when it is just right; dull, nicked, and rusty, we push it over the…
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Perverse Hopes
Relax. This is Safe For Work. If they have accepted the fact that you build plastic model kits, the worst is over. You can stop pretending to respectability and go back to looking at Airfix magazine in the toilets. The perverse hopes we speak of are: a. The hope that a major manufacturer will mould…
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Smorgasbuilding
One of those, and one of those, and one of those… And you won’t build that sort again, because they’re icky. And there you are, in the aisle of the local HobbyHell Supastore looking for a small bottle of paint – or a large box of tank. And you see a rack full of packets…
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Mirage F.1C – Part Two –
I am not a naturally suspicious person. I do not see conspiracies in every coup, assassination, or Disney movie. I regularly send money to Nigerian princesses. Yet I suspect every tricycle-geared airplane that they build…they are all tail-sitters just waiting for us to have a moment’s lapse of attention. I regularly weigh and balance planes…
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Junkers F.13 – Part Three – A Tail Of A City
The original tail of the F.13 is a beauty – looks like a bird’s plumage made in tin…very reminiscent of a WW1 design. But when the City Of Prince George was delivered it had a very much more modern and conventional fin with a balanced rudder. Fortunately this sort of model was also made by…
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Wenn Ist Genug?
A question for all of us – but in this case for the model builder who is puttying up their kit. When do you stop? a. When all the seam lines are full. b. When you run out of putty. c. When you have lost the will to live. If ( b. ) or (…
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” Why Would You Bother…”
Passing remarks should be allowed to pass – after all flatus is allowed to exit the body freely as long as there is a strong breeze to carry it away. So with many opinions. One that I heard of recently ( note the phrase ” heard of ” rather than ” heard “…that defining border…
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Kicked In The Zip
Normally an unpleasant sensation, I found out today that it was quite all right. And I will be looking to do it again in the future. Now don’t get nervous, and stop wincing. I am writing about the use of an accelerant to get cyanoacrylate cement to set quickly. I have bought a bottle of…
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Ol’ Stinky
In the social world of liquid masking agents, Humbrol’s Maskol is the one you rarely invite to the cocktail party. It is purple, stringy, and smelly. A lot like some people I know. I’ve tried it for masking camouflage patterns in 1:72 and found it to be problematical. It sticks, alright, but sometimes long after…
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Martin B10 Bomber – Part Four – If I Want A Pretzel…
…I’ll go to the bakery. The production of a complex fuselage is…well…complex. And sometimes the strange shape must cause the final product to come out of the mould a little distorted. I suspect this was the case with the Martin B 10. There was enough of a warp to render it impossible to set all…
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