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Bring Me More Chemicals, Igor!
If you want to be nervous but don’t like dark houses or cobwebs, try a walk down the paint aisle of your local hobby shop. You’ll find enough there to fuel all your anxieties. I did recently and encountered racks filled with products from nine different chemical manufacturers – eleven if I counted the off-market…
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Hawker Sea Fury – Part Three – If You Look Very Carefully…
And I did. I did look carefully. And I’m glad I did. The external fuel tanks of the PM Models Hawker Sea Fury fit together very well. A lick of MEK, a clamp, and they were ready for sanding. And not a lot of that needed – the seams fit very well. As I had…
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Hawker Sea Fury – Part Two – Hours Of Building
About two, as it happened. And part of the time was spent making beef pies in the kitchen. This aircraft kit is a fair way shy of the 1000-piece puzzle… But the pieces that do exist are rewarding. Well-shaped, and with few flaws. The wings and fuselage went together with the kind of precision that…
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I Now Know…
I now know my least favourite scale modelling task: making up propellers from separate blades and hubs. I have just completed the gluing on two propellers for the Lockheed Electra Junior and am waiting for them to set. The maker decided to do the hubs in resin and the blades in styrene – so I…
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A Short Aside…
$ 5.00. Pink and purple. Her Madge on one side and Parliament House on the other. A bird and some wattles. Simple thought, isn’t it. I’ve no ideas what $ 5.00 Australian would buy in Great Britain or North America. It would probably buy nothing at all in Europe or the Arabian sinkholes…but here in…
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Consolidated Catalina – Part Four – Tail Sitter
I take particular care with my scale models to ensure that the aircraft sit on their wheels properly. The tail-sitters like the Lancaster and Whitley, the B-17’s and B-18’s are no problem. Something can nearly always be done to beef up even the scaliest of landing gear to take the weight of plastic. The something…
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Consolidated Catalina – Part Three – A Gem In Full Sight
In full sight, but strangely hidden. The detail that has emerged with the undercoating of the Catalina is astounding. I normally do not effuse about rivet details or sunken and raised panel lines. I am a modeller of the Olde Schoole and as catholic as anyone of hebraic faith might be as far as admitting…
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Consolidated Catalina – Part Two – Stand Down Canso
The Academy model of the Catalina PBY-5A proved to be a delightful thing in the box. But the thinking that wanted to convert it to a Catalina I in RCAF markings was as flawed as hell. The kit is moulded in black plastic – and any attempt to throw it over to RCAF Coastal Command…
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Consolidated Catalina – Part One – Was That A Cat I Saw?
Yes, it was. But it was marked as a Consolidated PBY-5A on the Academy kit and Boeing is claiming credit for it. The plastic is black and the decal sheets refer to the US Navy and the RAAF but the Village Idiot is going to go against all advice and paint it white with RCAF…
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The Little People
No, not leprechauns. Or dwarves or midgets or any other arbitrary divisions of the human race. I mean model figures that accompany our scale models. The denizens of the Little World. By rights they should be the ones we make the dioramas for, instead of with. They are the rightful owners of the scale. The casual…
The Little World 