Category: subassembly
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Vought Vindicator – Part Three – The Yellow Arrives
I am starting to formulate a style in my model building – in fact a number of styles, depending upon the scale and type of model under construction: a. Large model buildings are done from sketches and photographs with a fair degree of leeway in the design. I stick to simple lines and art deco…
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Vought Vindicator – Part Two – The Czech To Progress
I have written before about Eastern European short-run kits and their peculiarities. The first experience was bad, then good, then bad, then gradually better and better. It is very much a mixed bag of sweet and sours when you build Czech, Pole, or Ukrainian. The Vought Vindicator is actually quite on the sweet side. To…
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Grumman Martlet Mk IV – Part Three – A Long Way
It is said to be a long way to Tipperary but it cannot be much further than the distance between the modern Airfix kit and the 50¢ baggie of my childhood. Today’s work on the Grumman Martlet emphasised this to me as I undertook the delicate job of closing the fuselage. It required the subtle…
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Grumman Martlet Mk. IV – Part Two – Well Done Airfix
There is a fine line in scale aircraft modelling…and if you’re not careful you scrape it right off with an Xacto knife… No, there’s a fine line between not enough detail and too much. ie. the French Mach 2 for the former and the Czech Special Hobby for the latter. With the Chinese Hobby Boss…
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Spitfire Mk IX – Part Two – The Patchwork Quilt
I am always in awe of the kit builder who has every seam perfect, every wheel straight, and every panel line scribed out. Awe and horror. Awe, horror, and unreasoning anger… Well, it’s not quite that bad, but I do regard perfection with some suspicion. Fortunately the Matchbox Spitfire Mk IX is a very soothing…
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Bell P-39 Airacobra – Part Two – The Sprues Goose
There was never going to be a great deal of desperate basic modelling in the construction of two P-39’s from Hobby Boss kits from the outset. And this was just what made the idea so appealing. I know the kit to be a good one and the ease of construction is just a bonus. Doing…
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Consolidated Liberator B. VI – Part Five – The Poor Sods
I may cluck with dismay at the inaccuracies and poor fit of some of the older Airfix offerings – the re-boxed 1960’s to 1990’s models – but I do have to complement the company for one thing; they do provide enough crew members to fly the misshapen beasts. Seams and awkward fit and soft plastic…
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Batch Processing*
I have spent the last three days batch processing US Army fighters, attack planes, and bombers. It started as a whim, became an experiment, and is looking to be a darned good technique for the future. It started with an idea – in my case these may be vast ideas or half-vast ideas, but you…
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Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part Seven – Heddo?
Er, Hello. You seem a little stuffed up. ” Dell Be About it. By builder has arrived at primer stage and has spent all day stuffing things into be. ” Is that plastic foam? ” Yes. He got four big pieces of it whed a printer was delivered and is using them for everything. ”…
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Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part Five – Wings And Tail
The plan of doing work on the Boeing Fortress at our club meeting rooms is working well, if I remember that I need to paint some things at home with the airbrush first. The club spray room is in the process of reconstruction and in any case may not have the sort of items I…
