Category: Modelling materials
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Good Morning, Walter – Part Two – The Nuts And Bolts
Walter, last time we talked I told you about the Minibrix building set and suggested that there are modern equivalents – like LEGO – that will let you erect great buildings. Here are some of them at the Western Australian Model Railway Exhibition. Pretty cool, and also pretty complex and expensive. I admire the thinking…
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Good Morning, Walter – Part One – We Get To Building
Walter, I see your Mum has written a column about you and your life – I just read about your first visit to the dentist. I’m glad it was a good one -I used to be a dentist a decade ago myself. This column is about what I like to call the Little World –…
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Sandown Park 2019 – Part Seven – The Great Grey Elephant On The Table
As Ray Stevens might have said…” Well, I seen it. ” It was the 1:72 scale components of a Saunders Roe Princess flying boat produced using some sort of 3D printing machine…and cello-taped together as a teaser at the Sandown Park exhibition. No-one around, but enough literature left as a clue to allow me to…
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Sandown Park 2019 – Part Four – Hearts of Card
I am always pleased to see our local card builder at the WASMEX exhibitions – card and paper seem so ill-suited to modelling. When I thought that, I had no idea what the kit and printing industry in Europe could produce. I’ve since learned by some practical experinece what can be done with pre-made card…
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What’s In This Stuff, Anyway? – Part Three – Masking Solutions
I counted up the bottles on my Little Workshop shelf and I now have more masks than Zorro. That’s not counting the tiny rolls of modellers masking tape or the big ones from Bunnings – I’m talking about bottles of goo designed to mask under spray paint. a. Maskol from Humbrol – the heading image.…
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What’s In This Stuff, Anyway? – Part Two – Decal Solutions
If I want to enjoy myself in the Little Workshop I can either fasten decals on a freshly-painted model or hammer nails into the back of my hand. Some days I am torn in an agony of choice… It was never like this in the old young days – I just found the place on…
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What’s In This Stuff, Anyway? – Part One – Paint And Cement
An inveterate visitor to hobby shops in my old age, I am now also a sucker for little vials of chemicals. Whether it is glue, paint, liquid mask, thinners, retarders, or clear coats, I never seem to leave anywhere without bearing away another expensive bottle. And i do mean expensive – At the bottle shop…
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MiG 15 – Part Seven – Supercheap To The Rescue
Do you remember my series of tests done to find out which acrylics, enamels, and lacquers would spray best? And the subsequent quest for clear coatings that would let me do decals and then protect the models? Well I looked out my sample tablets today and reassessed them. The local version of a floor polish…
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MiG 15 – Part Four – Seams To be Working
The anhedral of the MiG 15 wings… -3º…was cranked into the build today and I like to think it was successful. You’ve seen the jigging in the last post. The cementation was Mr. Cement Deluxe smeared on both the wing and the fuselage. It sets up pretty quickly and goes hard enough for jazz well…
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MiG 15 – Part Two – Bring On The Clowns, Popov
Well, I stared and stared at the colour call-out and decal sheet for the MiG 15 and just couldn’t get excited. The entire outside of the airplane was aluminium colour – with only a little red or blue on a tail or nose. I am not against aluminium colour per se but I’ve recently built quite a…
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