Category: Painting
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Nieuport-Delage 622 – Part Two – Canadian Club
I have chosen this title because of the shape of the Nieuport-Delage 622’s fuselage and sesquiplane lower wing. It reminds me of a baby seal. Coming from the Frozen North as I did, some things are ethnographic… Stop shuddering. If you can eat Vegemite on toast within the sight of decent people, you can stand…
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Sherman Tank – Part Five – Aberdeen
And not the one in Scotland, either. Aberdeen Proving Ground, Harford County, Maryland. The US Army testing facility. There’s another one at Dugway in Utah, but you don’t want to stand downwind of it… The Zvezda kit provided decals for the Aberdeen tank, so it got the nod. That meant that it could be very…
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Sherman Tank – Part Three – Batch Processing
” Batch processing ” is the term we use in photography for editing one image perfectly, then commanding a computer program to make all the rest in the job the same. It saves an immense amount of post-processing time. ( Working with really lousy images is known as son of a batch processing…) It is…
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Imagination Vs Reality
How much of either powers your scale modelling? In my own case, less of the former in individual models but a great deal of it in major dioramas. I invent air forces and their air fields as settings for soi disant accurate models. Self deception at its finest. What of the model car makers? I…
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Damn The French
Not for their food, or wines, or railway trains – which are excellent. Not for their beautiful women or their wise philosophers. Damn them for their aero camouflage schemes. Particularly the three-colour ones used in the 1930’s and 1940’s. They are hell to paint. The colours are fine – I like grey undersides. British Sky…
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Another Bronco – Part Four – Red Hot Mama
Don’t be puzzled – the name was given to the Bronco as it is a CFS fire spotter and the model was donated by a famous exotic dancer here in Perth. I love my life. The Bronco seems to be a superb choice as a working fire aircraft – twin engines, plenty of power, sturdy…
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RAF BE2c – Part Two – Club Work
And not the sort on an ice floe in sealing season… The BE2c is a Mens Shed model, which means the build is stretched out over a number of weeks – building interspersed with painting followed by more building. It is not a bad way of enforcing a sense of rhythm and giving adequate time…
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Potez 540T – Part Three – It’s A Fish…
But not the sort that you choose to eat – Rick Stein would throw this one back. Dick Stein is not so fussy. The addition of the nose fairing is marginally better than the glass turret, but it has given a deep-sea blobfish look to the poor old Potez – in grey primer it is…
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Grey – Gray – Grau
This is not a black and white post… I was gifted a number of paint bottles – a LARGE number – and had to decide what to do with them. The first step was to ascertain whether they could be used with my normal airbrush and thinners – and apparently they could, with good success.…
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RAF Wellington – Part Five – Desert Heavy
Well, not that heavy – remember that this bomber is twin engined to a pre-war design. But the theatre at the time saw few combat aircraft much bigger. The Vickers Wellington Ic is decked in a Western Desert night scheme drawn directly from the instruction call-out. The odd wavy top edge to the coal-black under-colour…
The Little World 