Category: Painting
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Gun Or Brush? That Is The Question
Whether ’tis nobler to load up the airbrush with two drops of paint or grasp a hairy stick and muddle over the part. To paint, perchance to drip. As a young model builder my choice was no choice. if I had paint and a brush, on it went. Enamel paint, never thinned. Brush cleaned out…
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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…
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CAC Boomerang – Part Four – Green And White
Readers of this column may be wondering why I build so few Australian aircraft. It is not that I dislike them – it is just that I know so little of them that I fear making errors. I know that other modellers are much more accurate and I respect their judgement. Yet I would not…
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Sopwith Camel – Part Five – Hendon’s Prize
On some occasions I will have all I need to decorate a model but miss out on one thing. In this case it is a set of small decals for the airframe number. There is one on the Academy decal sheet, but it’s wrong for the Hendon camel. I adopt a sensible attitude to these…
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Northrop BT 1 – Part Six – The Arcane Scheme
I occasionally go to our local bottle shop and buy beer or wine. It is a big shop and has hundreds of varieties of booze, and the only way to differentiate before you buy is by the labels. I have given up being a gourmet or a gourmand and have finally come down to being…
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Northrop BT 1 – Part Five – A Pit Of Cocks
Settle down class. Stop giggling. You in the back, too. The cockpit on the BT 1 had every chance of being awkward – PE rudder pedals and control knobs and such Czecherie – but I refused to let it daunt me. I have already made a Douglas SBD-4 and I am dauntless… The green colour…
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Piper J3 – Part Three – Yellow; Mellow Or Perilous?
The heading image is not yellow – it’s a combination of Mr. Surfacer white and some old Mr. Color flat white. The bottles are low and a combination of forces was needed. The end result is fine – and is absolutely essential for any yellow painting. I discovered this long ago while painting an Avro…
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” Paint Parts Before Assembly “
” What? Instructions? We laugh at your instructions! Real men glue everything together first and then mask for a week to paint something! We don’ need no estinkin’ instructions… An’ as far as dat go, we decal before we paint. We decal any time we damwell feel like! Nobody tell us when to decal. An’…
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Note To Self:
And self really needs to take note: a. Paint on a brush may go where you intend it. Paint on a finger never does. b. Near enough is close enough is good enough is never enough. c. Cement runs both ways – down the brush and up the brush. But never in the amount you…
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Junkers Ju52 – Part Four – Czech Junk
Old Czech junk. Actually old French junk that was foisted on the Czechs. And happy they were to get it, too. The scheme of the Junkers 52 that you see in the finished product is listed as being in service with the Police Air Service in 1950. A bit of googling shows that the Police…
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