Category: Scale Models
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PZL 23b Karas – Part Two – L’Airfixe
At least that is what it seems. And I am not complaining at all. The mould quality of the Heller kits seems to be of a piece with the better Airfix of the times. Of course there was a period when the two companies were aligned for business reasons but then went their separate ways.…
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PZL 23b Karas – Part One – Oh, What The Heller
My local hobby shop gets in batches of Mister Craft kits every year or so. They stick around a long time, as some of them are repeaters – say a Focke-Wolfe mould just reboxed endlessly with different decals. Others are unique and you snap them up as they appear – always hoping that they are…
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PZL 37a – Part Two – Club Time
This PZL bomber was reserved for a club time build and missed out on some of the workshop photos that other builds get. But in the end it came out well. The frontal view of the aircraft tells a unique story – the dual wheels set onto the landing gear legs. It is the first…
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PZL 37a Los – Part One – Heart In Hand…
Or mouth, as the case might be. I plucked this Mister Craft bomber off the hobby shop shelf as part of a Christmas present…wondering if I was going to get another dud. Mister Craft can mould some real curate’s eggs… In thus case I was not too dismayed by the sprue trees, but I did…
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Long Days Down T’ Bench
Or modelling until you can’t model any more. There are two types of long hobby days: a. The day that you just get to keep doing the thing you love, one bit after another. You finish one stage of the kit and are ready for the next one. Nothing breaks, nothing rolls off the bench,…
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Grigorovich IP-1 – Part Four – The Winter Coat
Part of the appeal of the Grigorovich is the seasonal one…the fact that it’s a winter fighter with skis for landing in the snow. I am not an Australian fan-boy for snow…I passed my childhood in Alberta and I got all the show I needed, thank you. The skis are a novelty, but so is…
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Grigorovich IP-1 – Part Three – Close Enough For Jazzski
And there I was, getting along so very well…and then winter set in. I knew it was winter because the snow started drifting into the gaps between the wing roots and the fuselage on this Avis model. I was delighted, as it obscured the giant trenches that had appeared. But come spring, the ruse would…
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True Scale Issue 5 – January 2023
Here is the 5th issue of TRUE SCALE – the newsletter of the Scale Model Club Of Western Australia. It marks a new calendar year and a fresh experiment in presentation. Prior to this, the pages that make up the newsletter were passing through several mechanisms to get here – some of which softened the…
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PZL P.11c – Part Three – Krakow Cracker
If ever I go to a peaceful, clean, cheap, and safe Europe, which is probably never, I hope to see Poland. And I hope to see the planes in the aviation museum in Krakow. One of which would be the PZL P.11c. This kit has entirely turned around my regard for the Polish moulding industry.…
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PZL P.11c – Part Two – Volte Face
Ahem. This may be difficult. I need to change my mind without giving the impression I was ever wrong. I mean, I don’t want to rend the fabric of the universe, now do I? But I need to change my mind about the Polish model moulding business. I once was of the opinion that the…
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