Category: Painting
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The Little Workshop – Colourful Guilt
Some modelers keep a stash of unbuilt kits in closets – these probably reassure them, much like a giant hoard of gold comforts the dragon Fafner in Wagner’s Ring cycle. I can see a few of the curled around them huffing fire… I, too, have a modest stash but I am working like Siegfried to…
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I Only Know What I Don’t Read In The Papers – F2A Four
My misquotation of Will Rogers is not meant to be disrespectful – I have always thought him one of the finest humourists that the Americas have produced. But he was long before the era of the internet and the wonderful collection of bad information that it provides. Note that I’m not using this column to…
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” Hey You! What’s The Small Idea? ” – F2A Three
If I were a spray painter on a full-size airplane I’d have no troubles spraying a fine line between colours. A few sheets of newspaper to screen off the overspray and away I’d go matching up the instructions. But I am working in 1:72 scale and I don’t think that my hand skills are such…
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I Can See Clearly Now! – F2A Two
Woah! That’s a revelation! I’ve been learning the business of masking and painting clear canopies and turrets for the 1:72 aircraft over the past couple of months. It has not been an easy process, as I have discovered just how un-detailed parts can be in some kits. If you combine this with the propensity of…
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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…
The Little World 