Category: research
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RCN Avenger – Part Two – You Will Be Dismayed
I nearly was. Not with the Sword model kit. This is a good one. With the Royal Canadian Navy – for their re-christening of the Grumman torpedo bomber ( Note that this is a TBM, which indicates that it was made by General Motors, rather than Grumman as a TBF – but it is the…
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Vautour IIN – Part Two – Czech This One Out
I am becoming a critic of instruction sheets. Though I might have become a literary or food critic in another career, I now look closely at the sheets and books that we get when we buy a kit. Part of the job of a critic is to praise, but it’s low-down on the list. Most…
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Curtiss Shrike – Part Four – Dragon Boo Boo
I generally have complete faith in things I read. This has served me well with all the elections I’ve ever voted in – I follow the instructions on the how-to-vote card and so far all my candidates have been elected. I also follow the printed instructions on the back of the Betty Sydney cake packets…
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Curtiss Shrike – Part Three – Army Green
” Is That Olive Drab? “ Yes it is. ” Is that the correct shade of Olive Drab? “ No, it isn’t. There is no correct shade of olive drab – it is a fluid, melding hue that goes from light pink to deep violet depending upon the phase of the moon. It was a…
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Curtiss Shrike – Part One – Down From The Shelf
This Dragon Models kit of the Curtiss A-25-A has been sitting in Hobbytech for ages. In the early days I would have put it down to a high price…but this has been surpassed by Czech kits since then. Or to the odd-looking box art. But this is no worse than some Eastern European stuff. Or by…
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Revell Brewster Buffalo – Part One – Baggie Of Doom
They make a joke about the Shelf Of Doom on the Flory show…but we all know of kits that are headed there no matter what we do. The little Revell baggie containing the F2A model looked to be a prime example. It had resided in a hot and cold attic for decades before my friend…
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MiG 17 – Part Four- The A-Team Moment
I love it when a plan comes together… The Egyptian MiG 17 sitting at Schmattarim Museum Is not the same as the one at Hatzerim Museum. Not at all. There is no Arabic writing on the nose. The wheels are still Soviet Green*. And it has not totally faded out in the Negev sun. But…
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Martin B 10 Bomber – Part Seven – The Japanese Raider
The original of this Martin B 10 bomber was not a hangar queen. Part of a 10-plane shipment to China, it and one other were the last of their lot as war took its toll. I get the feeling that there were issues with aircraft maintenance, airfield protection, and crew performance that gradually took out…
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The Ten-Month Gestation Period
I am about to start an experiment to see if I can remained focused over a ten month period upon one theme. It was suggested to me at a model meeting and after consideration I decided that it really was a good idea. It’s not often that you do get this much clarity in what…
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Marcel Bloch MB 152 – Part Two – Minus Two
If you are a little put out that you only get to see the start of this build and then the finished product, remember that this is a very simple Heller kit repackaged by the Poles. There is not all that much to see during the building process – it just cemented together in one…
The Little World 