Category: Painting
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Hangar Time
The second week of being in the hangar with my right wheel off is just finishing – though I am happy to say that I am not having antibiotics flushed through the hydraulic lines this week. You have no idea how awkward it is to go to the can when you have to drag a…
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Junkers 52 – Part Six – A Lekker Job, Eh?
Well, the final rush to finish the SAAF Junkers 52 went as expected. The only hindrances were integral to the design of the plane. a. The corrugated nature of the external cladding meant that a flat paint would never have accepted decals without showing silvering or separation. Each roundel or fin flash position, therefore, needed…
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Junkers 52 – Part Two – Contemplating A Corrugated Road
You can’t get away from the fact that the Junkers people – like Henry Ford and the Citroen car designers – knew a thing or two about the way materials behave – in particular on how to make a sheet of metal stiffer than you’d expect. Simple. Bend it in repeated folds like a corrugated…
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Junkers 52 – Part One – The Call Of The Mild
Not all my model aircraft builds are warplanes – though the economics of the model industry mean that they make up the bulk of offerings on the shelves. And even if they are military aircraft, not all of them have to be fighters or bombers…as evinced by the Douglas Dakota with RCAF markings. So there…
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Wash Your Twiddley Bits
As a kid modeller i never washed the parts for a plastic model kit before assembly. It was open the box, play with it for a week with hot sticky finger, and then on with the cement. When I got to the painting age it was on with the painting. Then on with the decals.…
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Vultee Vengeance – Part Five – We’ll All Pull Together
Our winches between our knees. As they say in the recruiting posters ” It’s Men’s Life In The Target Tug Crews “. It sure is. Of course the men are nervous gibbering wrecks who shy away from sudden movement and loud noises, but that’s beside the point. Someone has to tow canvas cones behind an…
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Vultee Vegeance – Part Four – Lacquer
Now before you start writing in to the editor to complain about the appearance of the heading image, let me remind you that I am the editor. And there is nothing wrong with the image – it is a plain and simple Vultee in conservative colours. It’s your eyes that are wrong… The new target…
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Vultee Vengeance – Part Three – How Green Was My Vultee
If the fumes from the paint don’t kill me, the bad puns will. Probably through the agency of enraged listeners seeking me out to stop them. Actually, I am very proud of this one, as it involves real thinking and research. As I am building a Vultee Vengeance in RAF or RAAF service ( not…
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Vultee Vengeance – Part One – The Show Special
When I went to this year’s WASMEX plastic model show I promised myself that I would only get one thing. Of course, I was a liar and a fraud; I purchased three things. The last of which came off the stash today and out in front of the camera – the Special Hobby 1:72 Vultee Vengeance.…
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There Is No Humour In Scale Model Building
I do not mean to suggest that the activity cannot lighten the heart – that people cannot devote their spare time to it and come away happier. Many of us do, and want the good feelings to continue…in spite of the unwise purchase of kits that have gotten very bad reviews. No, what I mean…
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