Category: Scale Models
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Republic P-47 – Part Two – Is This A Thing?
Well, the insides of the Hobby Boss P-47 kit were just as good as I expected – with the top-and-bottom fuselage construction and the crisp mouldings. The sprue trees were well-planned, and even if I do not use the wing tanks, I will have them for a future build. Basic fuselage has a very peculiar radio…
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Republic P-47 – Part One – The Gangster Connection
I try to find a connection for my models – and this one is going to tie back to my father and a childhood friend of his – Hubert Zemke. They were kids in Missoula, Montana at a time when a German name and a German family brought insular righteousness down on you. So I…
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Where Is Planning Committee?
Is there a Central Planning Committee for the Little World? Perhaps we should have a conspiratorial organisation that meets in secret bunkers under impregnable mountains? With guard dogs, and henchmen and girls in tight dresses… What would the Central Committee decide? a. What things get modelled in which scale. At present the world divides off…
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Move Over Acme Manufacturing Co…
Because the Little Workshop is here and we’ve got the ideas that’ll make your life easier. They’re not giant projects – they’re not vast concepts – but by golly when we think things up, they’re half-vast. Like our new model building supports. We’ve all had times whilst building an airplane kit when we needed to…
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BGC – Part 2 – The RCA Are Having None Of it
It turns out I was reading my history wrong – the Royal Canadian Artillery in WWll weren’t the ones with the Bren gun carriers – there were airfield defence regiments and detachments for this purpose. I still get to keep the Brens but I just have to make different unit patches. The really nice thing…
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BGC – Part 1 – And Now Something For The Squaddies
Or to be more particular – for the Royal Canadian Artillery. My research into airfield defence finally paid off when I discovered that there was a standard way on the prairies to provide cover for training bases – or rather there were two standard ways: Either do nothing at all or call in a semi-autonomous…
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If it Was Blue…Who Could?
Fans of Rowan and Martin may recognise that line, and bless Dan and Dick for the joy they brought us. But colour theory is not as simple as that – particularly if you are going to venture into the Little World. I did just that tone afternoon when I tried to organise my Tamiya and…
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The Stash – Part Two – When The Time Comes…
Ah, but when does the time come? Answer me that… If we admit first off that we have a stash of unbuilt models we can proceed. The model stash may be actual kits, homebuilt kits, scratchbuild ideas, or piles of raw materials. It may contain dead models from long ago ready for revision or cheap junk…
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The Exact Thing Or Just The Thing…
If you are going to make a model of something – whether it is an aircraft, a car, a train, or a house – you are going to have to answer some unasked questions. Exactly who asks these and what your answer should be is up to you… a. Why am I building this? Dive…
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The Cup Runneth Over
It’s often the little things in the Little World that loom largest. Now I’m not going to suggest that I’m a cheapskate. A penny-pincher. A scrooge. But I encounter things in daily and modelling life that press my Frugality Alarm button something chronic. And paint wastage is one of them. Paint from model shops is…
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