Category: Scale Models
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No Business Like Show Business
Somewhere this afternoon a modeller is putting yet another coat of paint on their show model for the 2019 exhibition. In three days they will buff this off with the skin of an unborn albino ocelot and start to spray the next coat. Then the whole process will be repeated – it is going to…
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Every Dinner Is A New Dinner – Every Model Is A New Model
Every dinner does you good – if you eat it in pleasant company. Keep this analogy in mind when you sit down and think of doing some scale modelling. Every dinner needs preparation – oh, you might go to some restaurant and have it placed in front of you, but you will pay heavily for…
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Morane Saulnier 406 – Part Four – Contact – Ignition – Chocks Away
Actually, in the period between Christmas and New Years and I don’t think I could’ve faced any more chocs or contact. I retreated to the Little Workshop and put the finishing touches on the Morane Saulnier. How different an aircraft can look when the final paint is on – as opposed to the bare parts…
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Morane Saulnier 406 – Part Two – Blink And You’d Miss It
The wonderful thing about the Hobby Boss easy-to-build models is the bad thing about them… They are exactly that – easy to build. You need to do the basic things like wash the sprues and study the instruction, but after that you find yourself going ahead in such leaps and bounds that you need to…
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Morane Saulnier 406 – Part One – Nevaire Say Nevaire
I shall have to reform my character in the future as far as model aircraft go. I pass by certain models in the shop, turn the box over in my hand, and say ” Never…”. They might be an odd prototype or an unattractive box, or just a tired subject. But I do myself an…
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Lockheed Lodestar Part Six – Finished For The Time Being…
The Mannix Ltd Lodestar – CF-TDI – will land at Wet Dog Regional Airport tomorrow and be hangared for a space. It waits on the appearance of clear Testor’s decal film in the local hobby shops – there is really no other practical way to get the speed lines and the company logo on the…
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Lockheed Lodestar – Part Five – My Father’s Son
I’ll say this now, at the risk of a haunting tonight – my father had some strange ideas. Not strange as in socially strange or religiously strange – his were more mechanically strange. They were generally a result of a problem that had to be solved, no fancy equipment at hand, and the availability of…
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Lockheed Lodestar – Part Four – The Grey Ghost
Limited as I am to only a half-dozen photos of the actual plane I’m modelling – CF-TDI – I am having to squeeze the last drops of information from each image. The heading one is the chief image I use, as it was evidently taken with Kodachrome in the late 40’s or early 50’s and…
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Lockheed Lodestar – Part Three – But Wait, There’s More…
I am starting to get smarter when I open the box of a new kit – I dive for the instruction sheet. The thing I want to see straight away is the diagram of the sprues with the ID numbers on the bits that I will use and the greyed-out portions that indicate things that…
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Lockheed Lodestar – Part Two – Knifing A Lockheed
Those of you who have never seen me in a tee-shirt may be a little startled at the top image. I am hoping it has that effect on the owners of the construction company that used to own the Lockheed Lodestar CF-TDI…the one I am building at present. I sent them a letter yesterday asking whether…
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