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Boeing KB29A – Part Five – The Sausage
The sausage is just about to close up. The day has been spent in fettling the compartments into the fuselage and securing them with cement and PVA. The former is to get the initial location and the latter to make sure that this is maintained when the second half goes on. My aim is not…
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Boeing KB29A – Part Four – Interesting Times
And we’re livin’ in them alright. I hope we keep on livin’ The KB29A was my Mens Shed model club project and I vowed to only do it when I was at the clubrooms. The bastard Wuhan Plague put a stop to that. But I decided to keep my vow…virtually – I would model in…
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I like Being An Escaped Idiot
It lowers people’s expectations and allows me to wear comfortable clothes. No-one asks me to pay for the next round of drinks and I can say pretty nearly anything I like. Occasionally the canvas waistcoat chafes at the back, but. I am a little dismayed when it overlaps into my hobby time – when folly…
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Boeing KB-29A – Part Two – The Decision Taken…
The agonising decision of which version of the ’29 to build, I started to gather decals and to paint parts on the sprue trees. Of course I didn’t take the easy option. I mean, this is me, after all. The idiot without a village. I chose to do the KB-29A version with the extra parts…
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Boeing B-29A – Part One – The New Kit On The Block
Or the shelf, as it happened. I made a safari through the 1:72 jungle at my local hobby shop and this Academy B-29 was lurking at the bottom of the new pile. I am wise enough to know when a model will be popular and not hang round – so I grabbed it with glee…
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Satisfying The Judges
When you next go to a scale model exhibition see if there is going to be a contest at it – apart from the fights between the customers and the shops. Something that has models on display and judges marking them. Look particularly closely at the table with the prizes on it. They may be…
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Miles Magister – Part Two – Square and Solid
Well, I was right about the RS Magister – It is a nice kit. As there is so little to do in making it – though it is by no means a Hobby Boss production – the assembly is not boring. Of course there is the PE to deal with but even that is simple.…
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Miles Magister – Part One – Cute And Clean
Every so often you need to have a change from heavily-armed warplanes or state-of-the-art jets. You need something small and simple and bright. You need a trainer. Of course the real things were all this and more and perfectly able to kill instructors and students who made mistakes…but that is not what I am intending…
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The Kiss Of Death
If you would like to destroy a commercial firm – to lay waste to its factories and plunge its former employees into miserable poverty, you must follow this simple procedure: Buy one of the products that they make. Try it and find that it is excellent. Become proficient in its use. Expect that you’ll be…
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When You’re On To A Good Thing…
Stick to it. A slogan from old Australian insecticide advertisement. We all thought it was a good idea. But what if we found a better thing? What was the slogan for that? I am minded of this by a discovery of a fresh decal setting agent in my local hobby shop. Currently I am using…
The Little World 