Category: Painting
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Roland C II – Part Two – Blue Whale
Say what you might about the shape of the Roland C II, it makes for a good small scale model. The interplane struts are broad plates and there are no cabanes. There is a good exposed engine, unusual fuselage windows, and two German fliers in enthusiastic positions. The gunner is attending to his duties, but…
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Here’s A Pot Of Money For Someone
And I know just where it will probably be made… The lucky people who read this column will have a spray booth to do their airbrushing in. It might be home-made – in which case they can have it any size they like – or a store-bought one that is limited in width and depth.…
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Fiat BR.20 – Part Four – The One And Only
My Nationalist Chinese Air Force is growing like Top Tze. Another bomber to join the Martin B10. Talk about strategic command of the air… This Fiat BR.20 was originally sold to the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force as part of a couple of stopgap squadrons until a native-built bomber fleet could be completed. It saw…
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Fiat BR.20 – Part Two – What Are You Lot Waiting For?
Italeri are very wise kit makers when they include crew members for their aircraft. They and Airfix are two of the few who recognise that you can fill a cockpit with something rather than etched brass. And the modeller will have less hassle and frustration all during the build. My people-painting skills are non-existent. I…
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Decals of Death
We’ve all bought an old kit from a garage sale or a swap meet. It may have started out in perfect shape, but then so did Hannibal before he crossed the Alps. Some of the kits I’ve bought still have elephant poop in the crushed old boxes… And they have sad sheets of decals. Sheets…
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Messerschmitt 410 – Part two – Expo Build
There are no build pictures for this model as I was busy holding down a table at the Big Local Scale Model Exhibition as it was being constructed. I had put out 6 of my airfield dioramas as part of a group display and as they did not need a lot of minding, I was…
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Northrop Gamma – Part Three – Texaco Sky Chief
From the layout of the wing and tail – the position of the cockpit – and the size of the engine, this must have been a hot, sweet, ship to fly. And the same specs must have made it right pig to land. I was thrilled with the appearance of the model as it was…
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Northrop Gamma – Part Two – A Silver Ghost
The instructions to paint an aircraft ” silver ” or “aluminium ” are often all you get from a maker in their colour call-out. I did not expect much more from the Williams company for this kit. But which silver – and which aluminium? I count four different Mr Hobby, 7 different Mr. Color, and…
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Triumph Herald – Part Five – We’ll Get To It When We Can
Just park her down the back of the shop and leave the keys in the ignition. And so the Triumph Herald arrives at Ess Bend Engineering. Stranded with a Lucas electrical system and a Coventry carburettor, she will eventually be reworked to Canadian standards. Many of her sisters will suffer the same fate in the…
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Triumph Herald – Part Four – The Non-Rolling Chassis
Despite appearances, I have grown up. I no longer build scale models with working parts. I can accept fixed wheels. Particularly when they are dependent upon thin plastic axles and cemented suspension parts. I have too many experiences with 1:72 landing gear legs to be sanguine about engineering in styrene. The Herald chassis is square…
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