Category: subassembly
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Matchbox Helldiver – Part Two – Wing It Or Sling It?
Here’s a dilemma. I’ve pictures of the prototype SB2C with folded wings. And the Matchbox kit has folding wings. But they are folded on the toy principle and look bloody awful. I have low standards but every now and then something shows up that undercuts them. I have built folded wings on an Airfix Devastator…
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Mirage F.1C – Part Two –
I am not a naturally suspicious person. I do not see conspiracies in every coup, assassination, or Disney movie. I regularly send money to Nigerian princesses. Yet I suspect every tricycle-geared airplane that they build…they are all tail-sitters just waiting for us to have a moment’s lapse of attention. I regularly weigh and balance planes…
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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 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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Wenn Ist Genug?
A question for all of us – but in this case for the model builder who is puttying up their kit. When do you stop? a. When all the seam lines are full. b. When you run out of putty. c. When you have lost the will to live. If ( b. ) or (…
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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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RCN Avenger – Part Two – You Will Be Dismayed
I nearly was. Not with the Sword model kit. This is a good one. With the Royal Canadian Navy – for their re-christening of the Grumman torpedo bomber ( Note that this is a TBM, which indicates that it was made by General Motors, rather than Grumman as a TBF – but it is the…
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Vautour IIN – Part Three – Basically, Yes…
As they say on Radio Yerevan. The Special Hobby Vautour could have been crook, but I suspect it isn’t. It has gotten to the primer stage without major flaws, while the sub-assemblies like the landing gear have been completed and dry-fitted. The wonderful thing about this sort of bicycle and outrigger landing gear arrangement is…
The Little World 