Category: Painting
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Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke – Part Four – The Coastal Command Wing
I have been delaying publication of the Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke final photos for several reasons; the weather is cold, the paint is slow to dry, and I have been making mistakes. Fortunately, not the sort of errors that are irreversible. The colour scheme of the Bolingbroke is taken directly from the Avia book I mentioned in…
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Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke – Part Two – If It Ain’t Bolingbroke…
In a reversal of other people’s normal behaviour patterns, I commenced doing the Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke before I had thoroughly researched it. I was going on an illustration in an Avia book about Canadian aircraft of the WW2 period and the one I wanted seemed to be similar to the Bristol Blenheim Mk IV. As this…
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Decal Day
Well, I knew it was coming…I knew it when I saw the sheet of transfers in the kit – when I bought the extra packet at the plastic model fair – when I googled up all the various marques of plane that had the same name as the one a’ building. I knew that I would…
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The Progressive Woo Hoo
People who want to develop a better character should become scale modellers. They will learn patience, perseverance, resilience, frugality, and how to get glue off your pants. And they will have rewards at each stage of the journey through modelling. It won’t be just at the end or at some contest when their model of…
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Modeller’s Memory
We are told that we have all sorts of memory: a. The regular sort that lets you down when you are looking for the car keys. b. Muscle memory that is supposed to guide you to the perfect golf shot or dance step. And it does…it does. As you develop it you find that you…
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The Big Green Things Made Of Wood
You know. Branches, trunks, roots, bird nests. Those things that stand there in front of the forest and obscure it. Whaddaya call ’em…starts with a ” T “. I’ll think of it in a minute… Well modelling can be like that. You do all the research in the world – spend days on the internet…
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We Need The Tiny Tin Can
I am looking at small and large cans of paint – spray paint, as it happens – and wondering at the rationale around it. The can contained a grey Tamiya primer. I’ve just sprayed the very last of it on a 1:72 aircraft and can feel satisfied – it completed the job just before it…
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Cheap And Nasty Or Cheap And Nicely?
When I came to Australia in the 60’s I encountered a whole new division of language. Coming from North America I had experienced Canadian English and American English – now I had Australian English to learn. It wasn’t that hard, once you discarded the ocker colloquialisms. Of course you had to pick them up again…
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Is There A Worse Way To Do It?
Because if there is, I want to know all about it. I love horror stories and the things that people invent to do for themselves in their modelling workshops are no exception. Oh, I don’t mean the accidents and mishaps. I can cut my fingers or spill thinner into the electric fire myself. And who…
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Special Greetings From The Hobby Shop Siege
This is the second day of the hobby shop siege and the management hasn’t gotten me out yet. I’ve holed up behind the paint racks and taken hostages. Police negotiators have turned spotlights onto the acrylics but I am refusing to budge until my demands are met. I have sent out a manifesto and have…
The Little World 