Category: Painting
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Covid Painting
The year-long Covid pandemic has been so tragic for so many that it seems nearly a sacrilege to mention it in connection with a hobby – but it has led to a drought in the paint aisles of many hobby shops. Oh, there’s paint still, as not all the makers have ceased sending out their…
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Mitsubishi Peggy – Part Eight – To Gloss Or Not To Gloss
That is the question. Do I risk putting decals on a paint surface or do I run over it entirely with Mr. Color 47 and wait until I have a clear gloss cover? I think I have made enough alternate decisions and mistakes with this matter to be able to dictate what to do –…
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Mitsubishi Peggy – Part Seven – Payday!
The gamble paid off! The wheel spun and the ball landed on my number and I got to rake in all the chips! Or in more staid terms, the pre-shading trick seems to have worked for the Mitsubishi bomber I’m building. I cannot claim invention – only emulation. But I seem to have hit upon…
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Mitsubishi Peggy – Part Six – In For A Penny…
In for a Pound. Or Yen, as it happens. I go whole-hog with a new idea. The pre-shading concept is not new to others, but it’s fresh to me. I’ve done a lot of Google study to see if it is a good idea and have decided that I have no idea – but a…
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Mitsubishi Peggy – Part Three – The Offices
Notify the Department Of Occupational Health And Safety, Yoshi. I think we have a situation. If we are to be the crew of the Mitsubishi ” Hiryu ” bomber we certainly do. See the three big green objects on the flight deck just behind the navigator and radio operator’s station? These are petrol tanks. Un-armoured…
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Mitsubishi Peggy – Part Two – First Club Day
The Peggy will be a Tuesday Plane – the name I give to models that I dedicate for my scale modelling club outing each week. If I am rigorous in sticking to this schedule it should last quite some time – I do not work on it on other days of the week. Were the…
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Messerschmitt Me 109 E – Part Three – Never Mind If You Don’t Read German
Get up in that airplane, Pilot, and fly it. Ignore the instruments on the dashboard. You’ll be fine. Okay, it’s a small cockpit and you’re very tall. We can fix this. The fitters will unscrew the canopy and take it off. Wear a flying helmet. Or a wooly cap. You’ll be fine. Yes, I know…
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Big Shiny Silver Planes
I admire the model builders wo make aircraft that have complex camouflage schemes – the ones that tackle the german or italian schemes of the WW2 period – or any of the WW1 schemes – earn my respect and praise. yet i very often do not follow them. It is not for want of trying…
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De Havilland Heron Mk II – Part Five – Whew
Well, the colour coats are done – the trim stripe is done – the decals are on. The various pieces are being cemented and snapped in. The air crash did not destroy the bird. Every speculative colour scheme that you think up – every set of decals you print yourself – every artistic decision you…
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De Havilland Heron Mk II – Part Two – The Split Heron
As far as the approach to this vintage Airfix De Havilland Heron kit goes, I am – as Kinky Friedman would have put it – out past where the buses run. I am in new mental territory. It started when I did the part count and some dry fitting – I noted the provision of…
The Little World 