Category: research
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Nieuport 17C – Part Four – Lumière Frères
The Revell box art for the Nieuport 17C does not match the colour call-out. Which is correct? M. Google, please step forward… And he advances magnificently. On the Wikipedia site, the entry for the Nieuport 17 shows a premier image of a 17 sitting quietly in a field. There are no other aircraft seen, and…
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WW1 Tank – Part Four – Rust Bucket
Purists will note that there are no unit markings on this WW1 female tank. There’s a good reason for this. The tank has been sold to Ruritania, after completing its time on the western front. The Royal Ruritanian Army has no experience with this new arm and so is cautions about what to paint on…
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WW1 Female Tank – Part Three – Makin’ Tracks
The tanquistas at my scale model club are variable creatures. It pays to be careful when you talk to them. While they are building the hulls and turrets they are cheery. You can have a jest about anything. While they are painting interiors they are happy and contented. When they are assembling tracks from a…
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True Scale No. 2
Second issue of the newsletter for the Scale Modellers Club Of Western Australia. The presses are rolling… Editor: Dick Stein Mild-Mannered Reporter: John France
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The Art Of The Signal Failure
I used to think that a signal failure was the dismal collapse of the world. I now view it as a necessary component in the chain of good communication…and not one to be ignored. I have done badly with my scale modelling at times…mostly through impatience and lack of understanding of the materials with which…
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Swiss F-5E – Part Three – Live Fire Day
I was fortunate to discover a net image of one of the exact Tiger II’s on the colour call-out and decal sheet from italeri. It was a large, clear image of the plane taxiing out to participate in some form of range day. The tanks and missiles of the kit were close enough to the…
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Tornado GR.1 – Part One – A Gift From The Goddesses
And you never look a gift Tornado in the mouth. For that matter it’s not wise to peer into goddesses mouths, either… The occasion for this Italeri Tornado was a job of shooting a belly dance show. The entertainment was worth any expense but the addition of a free plastic kit – the choice of…
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The Rise Of The Decal
Once upon a 1950’s time, when all good boys deserved models, there were large airplanes with small sheets of decals. Then times changed and the proportions reversed. As a 1:72 builder I am dealing with the small end of the market…small as to individual size but large as an overall genre. It is ideal for…
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There Is No Time Like The Present
And there never was. That is the nature of time…it moves forward. Pity some of the plastic model moulding firms are so stuck in the past. This is particularly ironic when you consider that these firms want to make a profit in the future by moulding models of things that vanished a century ago…and they…
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Lockheed Vega Model 5 – Part Two – Sleek And Simple
The mental picture of the 1930’s airliner can sometimes be very complex. One thinks of some of the French or British airlines that operated out of Hendon or Le Bourget and sees large biplanes or sesquiplanes with dangling nacelles, spatted wheels, and flying wires everywhere. Yet here is a 30’s ship that is the epitome…
The Little World 