Category: subassembly
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CAC Wirraway – Part Five – Foliage Green
And Sky Blue, and let the colour contestants retire to their corners and come out fighting. I was fortunate to receive a book from a friend full of careful tests and colour patches for WW2 aircraft. It contained references for RAAF Foliage Green and Earth Brown and I was able to mix reasonable matches with…
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CAC Wirraway – Part Four – Gappy vs Gapless
It is pretty simple to guess whether kit builders prefer their models with good or bad fit. But if there is going to be a situation in between – where do you want the gaps to fall? The aircraft modeller generally sees it in wings and tail, with the ambitious factories inventing new places to…
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As Al Capone Said…
” Dis organisation is moider. “ I have lost yet another major part from a new kit. I doubt it will be found and I do not want to buy another kit for just one part. So it is out with the old Pinkysil silicone moulding rubber and some resin – I will copy the…
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RCAF Hudson – Part Three – Mother Hubbard’s Hudson
She went to the cupboard – or in this case the interior of the bomber – and it was bare… Just as well my model of the Lodestar from Special Hobby has a full passenger interior- even their Harpoon had a better cockpit. About all you can say for AIrfix is that the bulkheads fit…
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RCAF Hudson – Part Two – I Been Airfixed Again
And I didn’t even know it until now… Look at Part One for the parts layout picture. Note that only one elevator panel is shown on the shot. I did not pick this up until I came to assemble the horizontal stabiliser. Airfix had dudded me again. But I don’t dud easy. I remembered what…
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Academy C118 Liftmaster – Part Two – It’s All Outside
One of the distinct advantages/failings of the 1/144th scale kit is the fact that the insides are rarely seen. Indeed, for many of the airliners there are no side windows to cope with – it is all to be done at the decal stage. I welcome this if the decals are decently printed. However, you…
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Norcanair Bristol Freighter – Part Five – Winging It
At a certain point in the build, your new airplane becomes a nuisance. Up until then, it is a manageable fuselage, some tailplanes, and a pair of wings. Or many wings, if you are making a bi or tri-plane. All the parts can be kept in the original box. When the erection stage comes around,…
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Mirage III CJ – Part Three – Let’s Give The Customers Something…
What shall it be? Accurate instruction sheets? Flawless mouldings? Adequate colour information? I have it – let’s just give them trouble. It’ll be fun and cheap and we can do it by making bad decisions. Like avoiding a centre seam on the top of the Mirage fuselage that could be smoothed and polished easily –…
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Mirage III CJ – Part Two – The Approximate Cockpit
I confess myself mystified at the philosophy that spends money to mould a resin seat of truly superb quality and then cannot make adequate provision to anchor it accurately within the fuselage. I admit that it is unlikely to escape once the two halves of the thing are cemented together, but the business of deciding…
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MiG 3 – Part Three – Either A Bird Or A Reptile
Soviet designers seem to have gravitated between these two influences. Either their designs resemble natural bird shapes or they look like lizards stretched out on a rock. In the case of the MiG 3 the avian predominates. Look at the rear view while the tail feathers are being put on – if that is not…
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