Category: Modelling Supplies
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Watching For The Delivery
Or, not every on-line transaction is seamless. The order for the little die-cast motor cars was made after careful consideration – I was going to need specific years and types to enhance my 2025 exhibition layout. Good sense would gather the elements needed now while they are still available. The net. A shop in South…
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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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4-D Printing
The new art of 3-D printing is flooding into the scale modelling world like a bottle of cement tipped over onto the cutting mat. If you move fast, you can rescue your kit from it…any delay will see you stuck to the workbench. Well, not that exactly…but you cannot ignore the new technology now that…
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Grown People
What on earth would induce grown people to spend an entire weekend standing around a hall at the dog race track looking at plastic models? Are they mad? Hopefully, yes. This thought is held sacred by a number of hobby retailers who also stand round…round the back of the tills. The more madness and money…
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Fairey Battle Mk I – Part One – At Long Last
Knowing that the Fairey Battle was used by the BCATP in the 1940’s meant that I was always burning to find one. Well, the coal fire went out at the Airfix works a long time ago, and nothing was seen here until an advertisement for a new Czech mould appeared earlier in the year. This…
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Lux-ury
If there is any simple thing I want to make my scale modelling experience better it is light. More light, brighter light, cleaner light, portable light, steady light, etc. No room in an Australian house seems to have a ready supply of it, even with the window blinds open. At night we are at the…
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Pride Is A Cheap Emotion
Well it is, if you do it right. Scale modelling can be done with pretty nearly any purse…though the hobby shops would like you to browse on the expensive shelves. The prices can rise to pretty nearly any level that you could name. People who purchase and build the expensive kits can generally be assured…
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Douglas Skyray F4D – Part One – Unloved Tamiya
Don’t raise your eyebrows and make that noise – this Tamiya kit was half the price of other 1/72 models from the same maker in their Warbirds range. That tells me that it is not a big seller – rather like the Japanese submarine seaplane in the same line. People concentrate on the famous fighters…
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Geezers
Pilots, aircrew, figures…whatever you prefer to call them. They were once included with all scale model aircraft kits – now they are rarely seen. The only reason my RCN Grumman Tracker has them is that it is a very old stash kit. The quality of the mouldings is marginal, but far surpasses those moulded in…
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Change? CHANGE?
We don’ need no esteenkin’ change! Or badges…Those of you old enough can tell me where that line comes from. But it applies as surely to scale modelling as to making drinks before dinner. The heading image was shared over three weblog columns; this one, Here All Week, and The Frontier And Colonial Photographic Establishment.…
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