Category: Scale Models
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Junkers Ju 87 – Part Five – Temporary Transport
And apparently that was all it was. They captured this one on a Tunisian airfield when the Germans retreated, gave it a quick desert pink and grey spray job, and stencilled it for USAAF and RAF markings. Then they flew it as a unit hack – until someone wrote it off. Bad airplane? Bad pilot?…
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Junkers Ju 87 – Part Four – When You Don’t Have To Land On A Boat
I am led to this line of thought by the glued-together Stuka – devoid of filler, undercoat, paint, wheels or any other signs of civilisation. As luck would have it it sat next to a completed model of a Northrop BT-1 for a while and the differences in the ships was marked: a. The Stuka…
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Junkers Ju 87 – Part Three – Fuselage
If ever the doctors start looking at radiographs of me and wondering why there are ulcers in my stomach and gaps in my brain, I am going to show them the business of fitting two fuselage halves together. I expect sympathy and understanding. Remember this is 1975, this kit. Margaret Thatcher has been elected Prime…
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Junkers Ju 87 – Part Two – Dry Fit
After learning how to correctly cut parts from sprue trees ( learned last year… ) the next most important thing I’ve discovered is the importance of the dry fit stage. And the more of the kit you can get to hang onto itself in this preliminary exercise, the better idea you’ll have of how to…
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Junkers Ju 87 – Part One – Hoping For A Revellation…
My first ever plastic model kit was by Revell – made when they were located in California. Now that they are a German firm, things may have changed. I see reports from the British modelling press that they are a curate’s egg – some kits fine and some foul. I also see cries of derision…
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The Work-Rounds For Genius Modellers
There is more than one way to skin a cat, but you’d be wise not to tell this to pet owners. However, if you are a scale modeller there are a number of solutions to common problems that appear if you are prepared to think outside the box. Or, in the case of old Airfix…
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The Difference Between Blazing and Blasé…
…Is generally time and experience. The more of these two you rack up the less you writhe on the rack. This applies to marriage and model building. I’ll leave you to deal with the first set of memories, but consider your experiences with your first plastic model kits. You were keen, you were fussy, you…
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Gun Or Brush? That Is The Question
Whether ’tis nobler to load up the airbrush with two drops of paint or grasp a hairy stick and muddle over the part. To paint, perchance to drip. As a young model builder my choice was no choice. if I had paint and a brush, on it went. Enamel paint, never thinned. Brush cleaned out…
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Gloster Meteor – Part Three – Up The Pole, Berkowitz
Up the pole, Berkowitz. The gate guard needs another coat of paint. ” But it’s too early in the morning, Sergeant. And it’s too hot. “ Up the pole, Berkowitz. ” But I get dizzy, Sergeant. And the paint makes my nose itch. And there are flies…” Up the pole, Berkowitz. ” But we just…
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Gloster Meteor – Part Two – The Wrong Road
I would be the first person to admit my mistakes – at least the ones I cannot hide under the rug. Or blame on other people. This kit prompted a mistake. I thought that I was going to make an Israeli Meteor to be displayed in 1956 colours at my air museum at Schmatterim. The…
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