Category: Museums
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Hangaring Out With With The Big Birds
I do love a good hangaring, don’t you? Walking around a vast space filled with extremely expensive aluminium and trying not to let any of it drip hydraulic fluid on you. Occasionally hitting your eye on a propeller blade ( or on a turbine blade if you are nosy and short-sighted…). Tripping over hoses and…
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The Old Siren Calls Again…
And it’s not an air-raid siren, either… My love of photographing scale models has returned, after a brief hiatus. I shall be using several new sets to capture views of a new model project. They will be shared on this weblog and sent wherever it is repeated. I shall push them onto appropriate Facebook pages.…
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Beaufighter TFX – Part Three – Lights, Camera, Ection Already
The Israeli Beaufighter you see here – D 171 – was part of a group of five planes that were purchased in the UK in the 40’s by Israeli agents. They were supposed to be used by a film company in Scotland to make a documentary on Coastal Command. They were given permission to fly…
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The Big Local Scale Model Exhibition – Part Seven – Tanks For The Memories
At one time I would have regarded armour models and military vehicles with only minor interest – I am an aviation modeller. Yet, the need for prop vehicles for my airfields, and then civilian vehicles, has meant an increased recognition of the little machines. And recently a dollar purchase of a Polish armoured car in…
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F-15 Eagle – Part Three – Baz
Not Bazza – this is not an Australian fighter. Baz, as in Hebrew. One of the couple of dozen of this type the IDF flies. The tail markings were initially meant to be two red triangles inside and an eagle on the outer but the home printing proved difficult – they were impossible to actually…
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F-15 Eagle – Part One – The Gift Bird
If you are reading this I have conquered. Weeks have passed while I tried to post a simple blog about this Academy kit, but every time I tried it the WordPress system made something go missing. If I were a suspicious man I would think of censorship. The kit was the gift of a club…
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Pinkish Semi-High Intensity Green-Brown
Or The Colour That Time Forgot. The most accurate recreation of something that never existed outside a paint designer’s cheese dream. It has no FS number but that’s okay – IPMS approves of it. The question of the right shade of puce to paint a Percival that has pancaked in Portsmouth has always been a…
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It Do You Good
To look at reality every so often. Be careful if reality wants to look at you… As model builders we are engaged in reducing reality to a small space full of small objects. We get very good at this with our kits, aftermarket parts, paints, and weathering. We construct imaginative dioramas and sets. We focus…
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MiG 21 – Part One And Only – The Buffer Zone Interceptor
We often forget that there was more than one side to the Cold War. West, East, and Neutral. And Neutral broke down to Undecided, Uneconomic, and Uninterested. The DDR were trusted by their Soviet masters more than you’d think. The Russians were no fools – they knew the quality of the East Germans and had…
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Gloster Meteor – Part Three – Up The Pole, Berkowitz
Up the pole, Berkowitz. The gate guard needs another coat of paint. ” But it’s too early in the morning, Sergeant. And it’s too hot. “ Up the pole, Berkowitz. ” But I get dizzy, Sergeant. And the paint makes my nose itch. And there are flies…” Up the pole, Berkowitz. ” But we just…
The Little World 