Category: subassembly
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Savoia Marchetti S.27 Sparviero – Part One – The Museum Repaint
The Savoia Marchetti museum in Italy has one of these aircraft on display. It has been repainted from the WW2 Italian version to a Lebanese Air Force scheme from the late 40’s. There are good colour photos of the plane in war service with Lebanon – it is a prime candidate for a special paint…
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RCAF Twin Otter – Part Four – The Canvas Stretched
The Twin Otter fuselage is closed, puttied, and smoothed. The wings are ready for their undercoat. All the ancillary parts are stuck to bits of matchstick or alligator clips awaiting the airbrush. It’s at this point that sprue trees in a box have become an aircraft. There’s still plenty of work to do but the…
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RCAF Twin Otter – Part Three – Bare But Clean
After building a number of Airfix and Italeri 1:72 models with rather comprehensive interiors, I am not sure I’m pleased with the approach Revell have taken with the Twin Otter. The cockpit is fine; seats, control columns, and instruments in a closed space. Painted light grey/dark grey and with the added fillip of seatbelt decals…
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Grumman F9F-2 Panther – Part Three – You Only Forget Once
Putting together a model of a jet airplane is pretty straightforward in comparison to a biplane or a WWII bomber. Fewer parts, no propellors, and usually a much sturdier undercarriage. But there is one thing that most modern jets have in common – tricycle landing gear and a tendency to sit on their tails. The…
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Grumman F9F-2 Panther – Part Two – Tubby Little Devil
The cockpit assembly of the Panther has just been completed and I must say it’s pretty nice for a $ 20 model. 5-piece, and some fine moulding on the sidewalls and instrument panel. And for a change the panel decal actually fit the piece. Micro-Sol doesn’t hurt either. The interior of the fuselage is…
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Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part Three – Lemme Up Youse Mugs!
I’ll murdalize ya! Just lemme up! The building table was well in use in our heading shot as I sought to get the tailplanes level and even on the Wellington Mk 1C. The fuselage had been cemented with Humbrol Poly tube cement due to an article I found featuring a build of this same plane.…
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Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part Two – More Poles
Our heading image is very close to the version of the Wellington Mk 1C that I am building, though in the case of this plane it has the later grey and grey/green upper works rather than the green/brown. But it provides painting hints that Italeri have left out of their instructions, so I am grateful.…
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Gloster Meteor F.1 – Part Two – A Grey Week
Actually it has been quite a bright week, weather and all things considered. But it has been a week of grey toil on the Gloster Meteor – and here are the results so far on the Ess Bend shop floor. The heading image is a dry fit of fuselage to wing unit. I need to…
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Boeing B-17 – Part Four – Bombing A Different Enemy
As soon as I asked Google to show me B-17’s in Canada I got all the old RCAF pictures I had already seen, plus lots of USAAF shots. And then down at the bottom of a long search something new started to pop up. The civilian B-17. A few had been converted to private planes…
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Boeing B-17 – Part Three – A Slight Detour
My projected mail plane needs to lose the upper and ball turret. The Academy people have not supplied blanking plates for these two gun positions so I need to occlude them with some scratch building. However, I started out with the basic cockpit and bomb bay assembly. The interior is supposedly chromate green according to…
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