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Heinkel He70 F2 – Part Six – Like A Newly-Minted Penny
The Heinkel He 70 has been delivered to the RRAAF. It appears that there has been somewhat of a mixup. Whether this is due to the purchasing commission spending a good deal of time in the cabarets of Berlin, or whether there has been some interference in the order by the Reichsluftministerium remains to be seen…
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Green Is The Colour Of My True Love’s Cockpit…
And it would appear that I must needs have many loves. I have two pots of paint in the Little Workshop stocks at present – both green – that I use to paint USAAF aircraft of the WW2 period’s insides. One is a custom mix zinc chromate and the other a Testor’s cockpit green. Neither…
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1200 Reasons To Be Happy
” I’m happy with that. ” is a trademark phrase from the master at Matchbox car restoration – Marty from Melbourne. And one of the things he has always been happy with is the white undercoat that Tamiya put in a spray can. He uses it on pretty much all of the toy restorations that…
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Lowering The Pressure
And this has nothing to do with a Johnny Farnham song either. Come to think of it he’s about due for another farewell concert tour soon… No, I mean lower the pressure on your airbrush. I know that Phil Flory has very sensibly said that there is no particular prescribed pressure for the air in…
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Douglas A-20 Havoc – Part Seven – The Work Of Art
Masking tape is one of the few artistic mediums overlooked in the catalogues of the famous galleries. Yet it is the chosen vehicle of expression for so many of us. And it is such a transient thing – here one hour and stripped off and thrown in the trash the next. Truly a metaphor for…
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Douglas A-20 Havoc – Part Six – A Pleasant Surprise
After the trauma of the undercarriage construction on the Havoc, I was not looking forward to the assembly of the rest of the nacelle. I had done some preliminary dry fitting and trimming of the housing – noting that the aft fairing was going to need either a great deal of putty or forgiveness. As…
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Douglas A-20 Havoc – Part Five – Just Because Someone Was A Fool…
…Doesn’t mean you have to follow them. This might be the phrase best suited to the stage of building that we are up to today – the landing gear on the A-20 Havoc. It is tricycle gear and the original designers of the ship wanted to make the wheels and tyres disappear from the airstream…
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Douglas A-20 Havoc – Part Four – I’m Starting To Like…
Well, I am starting to like the Havoc. And not just the plane itself, but the new materials and techniques I’m using on it: a. The plane itself is interesting – the pronounced dihedral and the cant of the tailplanes looked to be daunting when seen in plans, but the makers of the kit have…
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Douglas A-20 Havoc – Part Two – You Just Have To Search The Net Long Enough
Pardon the red eyes – I have been searching the images section of Google for particular views of the Douglas A-20 Havoc. There are a lot of pictures there and a lot of repeats – but if you look long and hard enough you can find photo evidence to support a build. My friend Warren…
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The Airfix of Old Is Dead
And from the corpse has risen a new and shining phoenix. I, for one, am delighted. When I commenced a new Airfix bomber kit – one of last year’s releases – I was blown away in just one day of assembly – the level of detail moulded into the parts was outstanding and the sensible…
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