Category: Painting
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Build The Stash
A pause in the litany of sin today – It’s my birthday and I thought you deserved a little variety in the column. Back to the grind tomorrow… I am a relatively recent returnee to the hobby of model kit building – though I have been whacking away at scratchbuilt structures and repurposed die-casts for…
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The Complete Story Of…Sin Five
” Well? Where is it? Where’s the last part of the title? We paid for the whole damn title…” I’ll get round to it eventually…but first a word about sloth for modellers. The word is – slow down. No sense rushing a modelling job. Slow and steady wins the race. A good job well begun…
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Anger Management, Damn It…Sin One
Funny that – the business of selling anger management courses…It’s all the rage these days in the Big World, though perhaps the word ‘ rage ‘ is a bad choice. Still, everywhere you look people are being urged to bottle up, calm down, chill out, and back down – at the same time that the…
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What’cha Got Cookin’ ?
Ansons…I couldn’t get the plain variety so this is the one with resins…I mean raisins… Currently it is raisin’ my blood pressure. I was nearly right by the time I got to spraying the grey undercoat on the ship. I’d filled and sanded as much as I thought I could decently do, and resisted the…
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The Mask Of Scale-Model Comedy Is A Mask Of 1:1 Tragedy
And vice versa. And even if you have come to prefer your vice versa, you still have to take time out of your busy round of orgies to deal with the painting on your model airplane, structure, or car. And inevitably you are going to need to mask something off for some reason. Brace yourself…
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Who Said Yellow Was For Cowards?
The author of the wonderful illustration of the Canadian Anson Mk1 – Mr Reidel – will forgive me, I hope, for making a desktop image of his drawing. I’m posting it up on my computer to cheer myself up. I have a suspicion that I will need the inspiration during the next few weeks as…
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A Happy Landing At RAAF Cunoath Downs
The ship is down safely – sitting in its own box all complete – ready for transfer to the WWII forward base at RAAF Cunoath Downs. It’s a secret airfield in the middle of the Western Australian bush. Secret only in the sense that no-one goes past it on the road because it’s too far…
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The Windows Of The World…
The windows of the songwriter’s world may be covered in raindrops but the windows of the Little World’s modelmakers generally exhibit glue, paint, and fingerprints. It did not use to bother me, but I’ve grown more childish as I have matured and I now find it an annoyance. The solution to the problem still seems…
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Patchy Is As Patchy Does
And no-one is patchier than me… I watched a YouTube post some time ago from a modeller who was making extremely precise masks for spray painting by using his inkjet printer. I believe he was printing on a self-adhesive paper and planned to stick this onto plastic models. He was very concerned about scaling the…
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The Brown Sound
Well that was interesting. Yesterday’s post about painting the underside of the Northrop Delta 1D was all very well until I decided to mask it and turn it over for the topcoat. The masking went well – various pads and rolls of masking tape squeezed and folded into the crannies underneath – the last few…
The Little World 