Category: Scale Models
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The Serious Modeller
Vs the chronic modeller. The difference is slight – more a case of emotion than skill. The former is a staid and sober citizen, carefully measuring between rivets on their one and only model – which they have been building since 1987. The fuselage of the kit is nearly complete and the serious modeller will…
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Junkers F.13 – Part Five – Flying Iron
Well, the City of Prince George flies again. Never mind the sad wreck in the museum – here she is in pristine glory. And a rare enough bird she is, too. There are few models available in 1:72 of inter-war civil aircraft – if you discount the various boxings of the Douglas DC-3 and the…
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Junkers F.13 – Part Four – The Simplest Of Schemes
Some modellers like very complex paint jobs on their models. If they cannot achieve it with the airbrush they resort to decals. And the full-size paint shops are all for this as well. The number of special and commemorative schemes that roll out are staggering. And I hate ’em all. Of course there are some…
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Junkers F.13 – Part Two – Twenties Elegance
For 5 bucks a throw. That was the price of a joy ride on the City Of Prince George – the Junkers float plane that was anchored near that town in the 30’s. Takla Landing, I believe. it had a civic christening and everything as they probably hoped to make a regular passenger service with…
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Junkers F.13 – Part Three – A Tail Of A City
The original tail of the F.13 is a beauty – looks like a bird’s plumage made in tin…very reminiscent of a WW1 design. But when the City Of Prince George was delivered it had a very much more modern and conventional fin with a balanced rudder. Fortunately this sort of model was also made by…
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Junkers F.13 -Part One – Corrugated Iron
Corrugated aluminium, actually. Hugo Junkers’ favourite material. He built a lot of things out of it – I suspect that it featured in water heaters, aircraft, and possibly underwear. The twenties roared in Dessau… This example of a Junkers all-metal airliner caught my eye on the Revell shelf. Then research showed it to be a…
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Stash MiG – Part Three – A New Finish
On an old article. The Hasegawa MiG 21 is finished according to the instruction sheet. It could not be supplemented all that much with the net as there were few pictures of the originals before they got blown up. But the model is an effective sketch in strong colours. The choice of duck egg green,…
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Stash MiG – Part Two – The Brown Article
I am always a little chary of Hasegawa plastic. it is quite a bit more brittle than that used by the other makers like Airfix or the Czech firms. I appreciate the fact that it can be drawn to finer points, but I dread cutting things off the sprue trees for fear of crazing. The…
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In The Mood
What kind of a modeller are you? I don’t mean are you old or young, fat or slim, etc. I mean, are you the sort who breeze into a room, throw a kit open on the table, and start weathering the scupper recovery ports with half your dinner jacket on…or do you need to psyche…
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Cougar F9F-8P – Part Three – Despite Sword
I’m being mean. Really this has been a very good kit to build. Minimal trimming, minimal filling. Fit everywhere. Just the minefield of the instruction sheets. It is a warning for the future, however, not to build anything straight out of the box and straight off the instructions. Get a third-party reference and keep it…
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