Category: Scale Models
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Sikorsky H-19 – Part Four – Utility
I often used to watch a television program in the 50’s and 60’s called ” Whirlybirds “. It featured adventures and rescues centred around two pilots and a Bell 47 helicopter – the US Army Sioux. I realise now that Hollywood made the 47 do a lot more than ever it could. It is a…
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People’s Democratic Socialist Scale Modelling Club
You will come to attention. Chairman of PDSSCM is to speak. ” Comrades, we are embarked upon a sacred mission of the proletariat; the transformation of a hobby into an all-embracing campaign to free the workers and peasants from their age-old slavery to the capitalist model kit companies. The time of oppression when we built…
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The Humble Modeller
How to beat ’em to the bottom. A reader of one of my other blogs writes that she is a humble person, but content. I believe she is telling the truth, and I salute her for the honesty. Many people could never bring themselves to this idea and would react badly if you mentioned the…
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Petlyakov Pe-8 – Part Seven – One Of A Hundred
No, I’m wrong. One of 93. The Soviets only made 93 of this bomber. They made them with three different engines, and experimented with the rest of the structure as well. One was used as a trans-oceanic transport to deliver Molotov to the UK and the USA…but the rest were used in penny packets for…
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Petlyakov Pe-8 – Part Six – Squeeze Me, Baby!
I feel like I’m going to split. The central bomb bay section of the Pe-8 dictates the spread of the fuselage. Had I not included the interior, and just decided to join the fuselage halves without cutting the bomb bay, all this post would not have happened. As it is, it did. as much as…
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Petlyakov Pe-8 – Part Four – The Puzzle…
If you did not want me to do it, why did you provide the parts? I address this to the Amodel engineers who moulded a complete interior bomb bay and 250kg bomb load, and then left the fuselage doors moulded shut. Not shut with a line to score and pop out – completely moulded in…
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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…
The Little World 