Category: Scale Models
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The Same Kit Again
I have yet to make the same kit again in my current modelling – but it came close with one of the Airfix offerings. Fortunately between Mk I and Mk IV a great deal had happened so the two models are quite different looking, The real problem would be if one tried to make a…
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The Little Workshop – Part Three – To Err Is Human
I never make misteakes. Now that you’ve recovered yourself, I can tell you that I was just teasing. I deliberately misspelled ” nevur ” in that first sentence for comic effect. I expect people will start to laugh any week now. Botching up things is a fact of life for a lot of us. We…
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Can It Be Done Better? Watch…
I have written in another post about Occam’s Airbrush but it was not until I treated myself to the live tutorial series that Phil Flory has produced on basic airbrushing that I realised how many devious pathways of error I have actually trod. And this is just a year or so after getting the sprayer……
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Hangar Time
The second week of being in the hangar with my right wheel off is just finishing – though I am happy to say that I am not having antibiotics flushed through the hydraulic lines this week. You have no idea how awkward it is to go to the can when you have to drag a…
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The Little Workshop – Part Two – The Bare Chassis
Having grasped myself firmly by the collar and demanded that I pay attention, I can come to the point of individual rules. I have a very threatening manner when I catch myself fooling around… a. You have your own interests and goals – you must build for these, and not for the demands of others.…
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The Little Workshop – Part One – Rules of the Road
You’ve heard of preaching to the converted? Preaching to an empty church? Well, how about preaching to yourself…Pull up a pew. I recently sat down and wrote some rules for myself. Rules for my Little Workshop, Little Studio, and Little Office. They are designed to make my life better, though it remains to be seen…
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The Impulse
For every model built – for every Little World commenced – for every article purchased in a hobby shop…there is an impulse. Something triggers off what may be a very long and expensive sequence of events. What can it be? a. The memory of an experience – a car you owned, a place you visited,…
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Junkers 52 – Part Five – The Research Pays Off
Having done some research into masking and finishing this year – some of it reminiscent of Wile E. Coyote and the Acme Manufacturing Co. – I have come to practical solutions for impractical problems. Impractical problems are those that no-one else has, that need not exist, and that leap out from behind the door and…
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Junkers 52 – Part Two – Contemplating A Corrugated Road
You can’t get away from the fact that the Junkers people – like Henry Ford and the Citroen car designers – knew a thing or two about the way materials behave – in particular on how to make a sheet of metal stiffer than you’d expect. Simple. Bend it in repeated folds like a corrugated…
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Junkers 52 – Part One – The Call Of The Mild
Not all my model aircraft builds are warplanes – though the economics of the model industry mean that they make up the bulk of offerings on the shelves. And even if they are military aircraft, not all of them have to be fighters or bombers…as evinced by the Douglas Dakota with RCAF markings. So there…
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