Category: Painting
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Dassault Ouragan – Part Five – Smile
I suppose if you are going to paint a shark mouth on the front of an aircraft – a la Flying Tigers – there is no need to be discreet about it. You’re not trying to hide anything. You might as well make it as big as possible. This seems to have been the philosophy…
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Dassault Ouragan – Part Four – The Colour of The Underwear
The colour of the underwear is always important. And not just in the gusset, either. Trying to find authoritative material about the insides and undersides of aircraft can be a problem. There are air museums, of course, and you get to peer from a distance at what the wheel wells and control surface recesses look…
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Dassault Ouragan – Part Three – The Grey Ghost
I like grey primer on aircraft. It makes them look like the old hard rubber recognition models you used to encounter in yard sales. I wish now that I had taken advantage of those buying opportunities. And it raises an interesting question – could a person build up a valid aircraft collection with the planes…
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Proper ‘Ard
Say that in a Matt Ball accent. The question of drying times has arisen in the past and I’ve made decisions that have bit me in the Arsenal F.C. Progressing from Tamiya acrylics to Mr. Color lacquers and modelling in an outside workshop/shed for much of the year has meant that there were a whole…
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Dornier Do.17Z – Part Four – Interniert
” What! ” you say…” The Swiss Air Force never bought Dornier Do.17Z bombers in WW2! ” you say… You say right. They never bought any – they were given one by chance. One landed by mistake at Basle – Birsfelden in April 1940 and the four crew members were interned. The plane was repaired,…
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Caudron C-635 – The Blue French Gem
To be specific; Bleu Baltique Metallique. This is the only post for this build – because I forgot to picture the early stages of it. They were fast ones – this Heller kit has only 34 pieces. But how lovely they are. The plane itself is a light aircraft of the 1930’s – purchased in…
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What It Says On The Tin
The English modeller, Matt Ball, has an expression he uses when he’s on the Flory Models vlogs: ” It does what it says on the tin ” – spoken in his local accent, it’s a great endorsement for whatever product he’s tried. Because he actually has used the product and it has performed well. I…
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Mitsubishi A6M – Part Three – Langley Bird
The Revell Mitsubishi Zero has been completed. It is one of those models that can be built to the standard of the kit but no further. If you look at inconvenient portions of it you can see right through it. But if you look at it from a distance, all is well. The Langley reference…
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Mitsubishi A6M – Part Two – I’m In Trouble With IPMS
Apparently if you paint parts on the sprue trees you are a bad boy. This was the experience of Phil Flory a while ago when he was seen to be doing this – he was taken to task by some enthusiasts in IPMS for not taking the hobby seriously. Seriously. The instruction leaflets, modelling books,…
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Mitsubishi Ann – Part Six – Smooth, Grey, And Vulnerable
Well, this little Pavla kit was fun to do. it has everything fastened now – PE dashboard, pilot, PE machine gun, and pitot tube, and the nicest pair of spats you’ll see outside of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. And I’ll bet they fell like autumn leaves, too. Sleek, smooth, underpowered, and dead meat in front…
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