Category: Scale Models
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Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part Four – Debut Day On The Club Bench
The Tuesday Soviet saw my new Airfix model box for the first time today and most seem to approve. I opened it up and started to study the instructions – fully intending to do most of the building on my Tuesdays to prolong the pleasure. The Airfix instructions are good – I experience little or…
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Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part Three – Washing Day
I’m gonna hang out the washing on the Mildenhall Line…and so on. Dad’s Air Force musters again. Today is washing day for the two new kits – the Grumman TBF-1 and the Boeing Fortress Mk III. I have beautiful weather for it – bone dry and a very modest 27º C temperature in the shed.…
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Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part Two – The Box Open
Regular day today. April Fools torment over for another year. Here’s the contents of the new Airfix kit: Fuselage halves with a big space in the nose for variations in framing and windows. Propellers, superchargers, and what looks suspiciously like a steam dome for a locomotive. Internal framing bits and machine guns. Detailed engines and…
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Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part One – Happy Birthday, You Old Kid…
Okay. Put on your retro panties and pull them up. Now wander back to your childhood and the time you were given birthday money and were let off for the Saturday to visit every hobby shop in town. a. DId you visit every shop in town? Yes you did. b. Were you tired out? No, you weren’t.…
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Sandown Park 2019 – Part Eleven – What’s Big And Pink…?
And full of high explosives? Why Strawberry Bitch, of course. Not a popular airplane in Romania, though it did visit there some years ago. Not that it hung around – just popped in, dropped something off, and popped out again. Sort of like a pastel-coloured courier van. No-one signed for the parcels… The real SB…
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Sandown Park 2019 – Part Ten – Break Out The Spray Gun, Lars.
I’m feeling sentimental… You cannot laugh at the Finnish Air Force. If you do they swoop down on you and open up with cannons and rockets. The Finns have very little sense of humour. This is not surprising. They live in between two heavily-armed neighbours – the Swedes and the Russians – and in their…
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Sandown Park 2019 – Part Nine – The National Capitol
Australia is similar in many respects to Canada and the United States of America – we all established separate and specific cities for the seats of our national governments. And we elect representatives from our disparate states or provinces to go and sit there. In earlier days this was a great comfort, but now that…
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Sandown Park 2019 – Part Eight – Chop Till You Drop
I really must make more of a study of model helicopters – having built four of them for my own small airfields. Thankfully, the kit industry has as much affection for them as for fixed-wing aircraft and there seem to be varieties from every country on offer. If you were a dedicated helicopter modeller you…
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Sandown Park 2019 – Part Seven – The Great Grey Elephant On The Table
As Ray Stevens might have said…” Well, I seen it. ” It was the 1:72 scale components of a Saunders Roe Princess flying boat produced using some sort of 3D printing machine…and cello-taped together as a teaser at the Sandown Park exhibition. No-one around, but enough literature left as a clue to allow me to…
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Sandown Park 2019 – Part Six – Before You Ask…
Back from my visit to the Victorian scale model exhibition, all my parcels have arrived, and I’ve reviewed the pictures taken on the day. Someone is bound to ask me which exhibit I thought best. After due consideration, here it is: Olympic Doughnuts in Footscray. A real model of a real place in real time.…
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