Category: Painting
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YF23 – Part Two – Scale Effect?
I have watched videos explaining the idea of scale effect upon paint schemes. They seem to make a great deal of fuss explaining that you mix grey, yellow, or white into darker colours when you are painting smaller-scale models. This is in direct contrast to many manufacturers of trains and cars who want the exact…
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Ardently Argent
There is an El Dorado for all of us. The Spanish Conquistadors looked for a Golden Man. I am not as ambitious – I will settle for a silver airplane. I am driven by memories of shining jets and passenger liners of the great travel age. Not now, when everyone can be crammed into a…
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Egyptian Mig 21 – Part Three – O..1
When life gives you MiGs – you make MiGaid… You research the internet until you find a real picture of the model you have in the box. Colour, for preference, and well-lit if possible. You can make do with older B/W photos but be wary of other people’s colourizations or the precise artwork of virtual…
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Mil 24 Hind F – Part Four – UkrAF
My first venture for the Ukrainian Air Force – and a good way to use an ex-Soviet design. Apparently the Ukrainians think so too – this Cold War troop carrying attack helicopter is doing quite well at low-level attacks and shooting down the larger Russian drones. The slower speed of a helo, plus its ability…
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Boeing Clipper 314 – Part Five – A Soul At Rest
It took an extra week, but the time was worth it. The aggravating mistakes of the first Boeing Clipper 314 have been corrected. The mental image I had of the result has come into focus. I can rest easy. The duraluminium surface has been all I could ask for – taking decals perfectly and keeping…
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Boeing Clipper 314 – Part Four – The Horse
When we fall off a horse we are counselled to get right back on – before we develop a fear that would paralyse us. Sound thinking, and as I was unhappy with the finish of the Boeing 314 DIXIE CLIPPER I considered it advisable to go out and buy another kit…and finish it to a…
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Boeing 314 Clipper – Part Three – President’s Plane
When Only The Best Will Do. This aircraft – DIXIE CLIPPER – flew Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Casablanca Conference in 1943. He maintained a Douglas for Continental flights – the SACRED COW. This build fell together but as usual it also started to fall apart as it progressed. The Mr Color 2028 Duraluminium went…
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You Can Save Yourself Into The Bin
Or the poorhouse. The first comes about when you decide to buy raw materials to bypass the commercial products. If you have been used to using a rattle can for spraying undercoat or varnish, you can replace this consistent and successful method with a single-action airbrush, little pots of clear lacquer, and a great deal…
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I Miss The Old China Station Scheme
I mean I miss the warship paint scheme that was favored in Victorian times: a white hull and upperworks with buff funnels and the occasional black funnel cap. Brass, too, just to trim up the works. Oh, I understand perfectly the need to paint them a uniform grey in wartime to let the ship approach…
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Sikorski Sea Dragon – Part Three – Grey On Gray
I just did that to gee up the Pommie Pedants who will insist that there should never be two spellings of the colour…or the color… The helicopter is surprisingly handsome for something that hangs its engines out on stalks and puts rubbish bins in front of them. I could have asked Italeri to mould the…
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