Category: subassembly
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Martin Canberra – Part Two – Dry Fit Champ
As soon as the cockpit tub went in – along with the 3/4 of a musket ball – I knew I was on a winner. A fuselage cementation stage can be heaven or hell, depending on whether the moulders have proportioned the cockpit tub or platform to the actual inside of the shell. Many Czech…
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Čmelák – Part Two – Nothing Agricultural
Nothing crude about Eduard scale model kits. At least if this little crop duster is anything to go by. The mouldings on the sprue trees are superb. In fact I would rate them as highly as some people rate Tamiya offerings in the same scale. For a person who built some of the very early…
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Bristol Belvedere – Part Two – How Right They Were
This kit has all the appeal of a Revell re-box. The two halves of the fuselage may have been pulled out of the mould while still hot and allowed to cool on a window sill. The result is a progressive rolling distortion that will never allow the parts to join in one cementation I decided…
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Airfix Junkers 87 – Part Three – Boxing Day
If you are wondering what to do on Boxing day and your Christmas kits are sitting there…well, I ask you. As this Stuka was destined to have a dark-coloured scheme, it was a chance to use my black cement. It’s a 50/50 mix between a thin and thick cement. Perfect for parts that need to…
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Airfix Junkers 87 – Part Two – Inside The Office
Approaching an aircraft build with trepidation is always disheartening. But some kits beg it – the Czech short-run ones or the Russian re-pops often have too much inside or nothing at all. We have all seen the pilot figure stuck to a post from one side of the fuselage – or worse; nothing whatsoever under…
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Hannover CL III A – Part Two – Tuch der Tränen
If ever you are presented with the prospect of building a WW1 German aircraft, look at the colour call-out carefully. It may have lozenge-pattern cloth used as basic covering, Prepare to tremble. The lozenge-pattern camouflage is going to be difficult – as the previous chap found out when he tried Humbrol enamel on the complex…
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RCAF Wellington Mk II – Part Four – It’s No Sin To Fill
But it’s no great honour, either… I’ve no idea if Tevye built model airplanes, but if he did, he would have been philosophical about it. For my part I accept the inevitability of gaps and defects and the need for a good fill and sand. AIrfix, on the other hand seem to have decided to…
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RCAF Wellington Mk II – Part Three – Sub-Assembly Is The Go
When you are building a model in three or four different locations, it pays to view each of these workshops as a separate shop. The real aircraft makers did this – in particular the American ones like Ford who could count on a number of plants in a general area. They assigned a particular sub-assembly…
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RCAF Wellington Mk II – Part Two – Missing The Point
The new Airfix Wellington Mk II has a full set of interior parts. These are proper injection moulded parts – not resin bits on a block or impossible slivers of brass. If you follow the very detailed instruction diagrams you can end up with a fully kitted-out bomber interior. Yet Airfix suggest that you can…
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RWD 5bis – Part Two – The Solo Monoplane
Whenever you see the word ” monoplane ” you know you are looking at a period design. Because there were other choices – biplanes, triplanes, sesquiplanes, etc. These still exist today, but only in oddity or X-plane form. The big feature of this little airplane is the fuel tank – sandwiched into the tiny interior…
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