Category: Scale Models
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Farman NC 223.3 – Part Two – Short Run Need Not Be Vile
I think Forrest Gump would have enjoyed short-run Czech kits – he had a philosophy that would have coped. I may send my next Prague bomb to Tom Hanks. The fuselage halves of this angular bird could have been a disaster – no locating pins and a very long run for twists and warpage. But…
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Farman NC 223.3 – Part One – A Packet Of French Letters
Specifically, SNCAC NC 223.3 B.N.5. Hereafter referred to as the Farman – it’s the only one in the stable so I don’t need to be specific. This Azur kit promises to be several weeks worth of advanced building – it is definitely short-run but of the better sort. There are only the vaguest of interior…
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Dornier Do-17Z – Part Six – Discrete Dornier
The Finnish Air Force roundels on this Post-War Dornier seemed a little small when seen in the illustration. They were also depicted this size on another modeller’s effort…so I finally had to accept them as real. The colours of this ex-Luftwaffe aircraft were very close to that of the German Air Force in the late…
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Dornier Do-17Z – Part Five – Crewed Up
” Skipper to crew: Does anyone have the telephone number for Windscreens O’Brien…? “ Have patience, your canopy is in the preparation stage. Fortunately Monogram/Revell have moulded clear ones with pronounced frames. After-painting should be fairly straightforward. The Dornier is on her legs as well – and here the decision of the moulders to make…
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Dornier Do-17Z – Part Four – Kenttävihreä
Gesundheit. Here, have a tissue. It actually means Olive Green and the information sheet I have assigns an FS number to it: FS34096. There are the numbers on Mr. Color paint jars as well as those of other makers, but none seem to be exactly the same colour. I have elected to try my luck…
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Dornier Do-17Z – Part Three – So Near…
And yet so far… I was really hoping to get the Dornier 17Z buttoned up with no need for filler as a tribute to the old Monogram moulders. Such was not to be the case, but in the meantime I am puzzling over the inside of the wing. The Monogram engravings are there alright, as…
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Dornier Do-17Z – Part Two – ” We’re All In This Together…”
That catch phrase from the classic of Canadian culture – the Red Green Show – certainly applies to most of the German bombers I’ve seen – and particularly to the Dornier 17Z. The crew was large enough; a pilot, co-pilot, navigator, bombardier, gunner, and party political officer. There were only 5 seats for 6 crew…
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” Recapture Your Childhood “
Said an advertisement for a reissue of an old kit. I opened the box and looked in… My childhood was moulded better than that – and it was made in the same mould. I might have aged a lot and some of my edges have become worn, but I have avoided sinkholes in every corner…
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Do Not Build
A useful list of things not to do in the scale model hobby… a. Do not build tired. Too late at night spoils paint jobs. b. Do not build drunk. One more little one can’t hurt you, but five more can. Hobby knives can cut flesh as easily as styrene. c. Do not build angry.…
The Little World 