Category: Scale Models
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Making Water On The Workbench
And in cold weather, too… I needed a harbour with water – dry water – to display my float planes. No good just posing them on a glass shelf like dried cod – they needed to look like they were in their natural element. No time, and no inclination, to do the complex water-building that…
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Mitsubishi Babs – Part One – The Name
I have heard it put forward that the designations we give to our land, sea and air models should conform to the original languages of the makers. Thus, this Mitsubishi product should be known as a Ki-15-I Karigane or Army Type 97 Command Reconnaissance Aircraft. Or alternately, the Wild Goose. All of which will bewilder,…
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When Is Shoddy Workmanship Justified?
Never? Always? Something in between? Let us explore… The classic maxims about workmanship emphasize how you must always strive. ” Any job worth doing is worth doing well “.” A poor workman blames his tools “. ” Go west, young man “…and so forth. Stirring stuff. Makes you long for a moral Mixmaster. It has…
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When Does A Workshop Qualify For A Federal Grant?
Possibly when it becomes world-famous or when a member of Parliament takes up a hobby. The reporters will flock and the money roll in. I have no intention of entering Parliament, but I still hold out hopes of fame. I have engaged a make-up artist and a dance coach to get me ready for the…
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FROG Stash Avenger – Part Four – Show Bird
Casting about for a role for the FROG Avenger, I came upon a series of photos taken at a recent Dutch air show. They show a Grumman Avenger painted in what I assume are authentic colours for the Aéronavale – the air arm of the French Navy. I expect the aircraft would have been a…
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FROG Stash Avenger – Part Three – The Avenger Meets The Blob
Sounds like the title of a Marvel Comics movie, doesn’t it? The problem was there to be solved – and it is one that has occurred on previous models of the Grumman TBF. The .50 machine gun needs to be installed in the turret and the turret installed in the fuselage before you close it…
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FROG Stash Avenger – Part One – Inadvertent Baggie
Got for a very low price in a plastic freezer bag, this FROG Avenger of 1973 is going to be a beautiful model to build. The parts photo shows some work already done at the SMCWA clubrooms: cutting and sanding plus Sprue Goo filling of numerous FROG sinkholes. The week’s interval between club dates means…
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When You Take The Leap Of Faith
And it works. I tried a new technique in the construction of scale model parts. I needed a hollow engine cowling for a bomber and had a similarly-sized one to use as a master model. A few weeks ago I embedded this master in a casting box made of cheap cardboard and poured two-part silicone…
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Pride Is A Cheap Emotion
Well it is, if you do it right. Scale modelling can be done with pretty nearly any purse…though the hobby shops would like you to browse on the expensive shelves. The prices can rise to pretty nearly any level that you could name. People who purchase and build the expensive kits can generally be assured…
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