Category: Scale Models
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Petlyakov Pe-8 – Part One – Metro’s Bargains
Metro Models In Melbourne have a sale every now and again – chiefly the models that have sat in dusty neglect on their shelves. I take advantage, as I am also dusty and sit on a shelf much of the time… In this case the original price was some $ 60 and they applied a…
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Getting Away With It
Note: I did not write ” cleanly ” at the end there. There are always consequences. A friend has speculated that a mathematical formula should be worked out to tell our spouses how much the new kit has cost. I applaud a scientific mind and sense of honesty and will mention it in his eulogy.…
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The Mathematics Of Modelling
No, I’m not talking about scale precisely…though this may enter into the science later. I am trying to formulate a series of mathematical equations that will explain the little world. Like many things in the past that have been discovered in geometry, algebra, calculus, and trigonometry they may start at very simple statements and grow…
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Can You Be Nostalgic…
About someone else’s past? Can you appropriate memories and images? In most societies this is severely frowned upon – like the outroar if a non-indigenous person were to paint themselves with dust and dots. Or a Canadian Prime to apply shoe polish to his face and hands for a frat party. Big explosion! So how…
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Boeing B17G – Part Two – Doodle Bug
There are very few steps to the average 1/144 kit – and if you walk fast… You get to the end very quickly. This Academy kit was started on Saturday and finished on Wednesday. That was not a deliberate sprint – it just happened to fall together with very little filling or sanding and a…
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Boeing B-17G – Part One – Academy
Or is that Minicraft? The box for this old B-17 lists both companies and a recent announcement from Academy in South Korea says that the assets of this older American company have been acquired by them. This box looks to be slightly old and slightly squashed and the instructions date the Academy sheet at 1992.…
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Modelling Without Guilt
It’s rather like sex without guilt – fun, but a little bland. Not that you want to be pursued through bedroom doors and corridors like a Feydeau farce, but a little innocent concealment of the new kit makes for a frisson of excitement – even if it turns out to be the same old moulding…
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How Far Down Do The Rabbits Go?
And I don’t mean on the internet. How far down does a scale modeller pursue the business – at what point does the quest for detail stop? How about weathering and appearance? Where does the line of diminishing returns cross that of fatigue? I think it differs with the genre and scale of the models,…
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MiG 15 Bis – Part Five – Between The Wars
Actually you have to be a lot more specific with the Middle East – which two?. Their wars arrive in succession like buses at Bull Creek railway station – one after another. This colour scheme is said to be late 60’s – somewhere in between the Sinai War and the 6-Day War. I have googled…
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MiG 15 Bis – Part Four – Short John Silver
Been waiting for years to use that line… The choice of the United Arab Republic’s Air Force as the scheme for this MiG 15 Bis was driven by the need to have some counterbalance to my Israeli Air Force collection. The time selected by Eduard for their decals is the early 1960’s – after the…
The Little World 