Category: Modelling materials
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Hawker Hurricane Mk II – Part Two – Ahhhhh, Chooo!
Oops. Sniff. Looks like it is all together…. Well, it almost seems like that with Hobby Boss. You sit there idly scraping down a seam line…that is nearly perfect anyway…and then you dry fit a couple of parts and then you decide to glue one in… And the thing is done. It’s not quite that…
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The Longest Day
No, it’s not another D-Day memorial blog. You can wash the black and white stripes off your computer monitor… It’s a post about which day in the build of a model is the easiest – which is the hardest – which the least enjoyable – and which is the one you like the best. As…
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Whadaya Want In The Hobby Shop?
A good question – and one the owners of the places would desperately like to have an accurate answer to – there have been enough hobby shops that have foundered upon not being able to answer it. I often wonder if there was a way to have prevented this. Note: I realise that some shops…
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Ticking Them Off
Ticking them off is ticking me off. I mean the various means for producing camouflage paint schemes on model aircraft. Recently I tried the Silly Putty Snake method for making British A and B aircraft patterns. I had two pots of different brands of silly putty and had researched all the YouTube videos on how…
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Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke – Part Three – Are We Hobbyists Or Detectives?
I bought the Avia book about Canadian aircraft of WW2 on a whim at Hylands Bookstore in Melbourne earlier in the year. Hylands is a peripatetic purveyor of printed matter – I have been to 4 of their premises in the CBD of Melbourne over the decades and each time it has been a unique…
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Decal Day
Well, I knew it was coming…I knew it when I saw the sheet of transfers in the kit – when I bought the extra packet at the plastic model fair – when I googled up all the various marques of plane that had the same name as the one a’ building. I knew that I would…
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The Progressive Woo Hoo
People who want to develop a better character should become scale modellers. They will learn patience, perseverance, resilience, frugality, and how to get glue off your pants. And they will have rewards at each stage of the journey through modelling. It won’t be just at the end or at some contest when their model of…
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Modeller’s Memory
We are told that we have all sorts of memory: a. The regular sort that lets you down when you are looking for the car keys. b. Muscle memory that is supposed to guide you to the perfect golf shot or dance step. And it does…it does. As you develop it you find that you…
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The Power And the Glory
Little World builders have powers far exceeding those they exercise in the Big World. They can be sole commanders, iconic architects, industry giants, or genius designers and no-one else can say them nay. Their word may be flawed, but it is generally final. It gives them a little taste of what it must have been…
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The Table Of Despair
My local hobby shop has a shallow table out the front of the store near the tills. It contains the specials and bargains that they would like to clear quickly. I look at it every time I go to the shop and have come to a number of conclusions: Some things will never sell, because…
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