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” The Mk IV Is Different From The C Model…”
” But only in the under-flange. This is 13mm longer than the 1943 modification. Few modellers realise this.” Not surprising, Chief. 13mm in 1/72nd scale is .18 of a millimetre and very few modellers can see that small – or care that much. We are struggling to get parts off a sprue without digging holes…
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Blackburn Buccaneer – Part One – Not A Straight Line…
Note: This is the post I meant to put up today…but failed to find. I repeated myself re. the Spitfire, so I have taken down the morning’s column and published this one instead. Not a straight line anywhere on this plane, I should think. But that’s not a bad thing – there were few straight…
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Yeah, It Exists…
My piece on paint dilution and the accurate way to measure it was answered by a click on Google. You can, indeed, get a flow dilution meter for paints that electronically measures them. it costs $ 665 AUD and you can order it on-line. Go-on…fill yer boots. Or not, if you consider that $ 665…
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The AK Paint Tip
AK paints are good material to work with – I found this out by buying a couple of box sets at the Melbourne plastic model exhibition. They are three-bottle collections for RAF fighter aircraft of WW2. One is for early schemes and one for late. Think green/brown/sky and grey/green/grey. Before I purchased them I asked…
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Build me A Hobby Room!
I have just won Lotto. My ticket in the 450 Million Dollar Supergreed Draw Of The Millenium has won first prize and I am the only one in Australia who got it. All week long dump trucks have been backing up to the front lawn and tipping wads of $ 100 notes onto it. Now…
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The Suitcasers
Do you remember seeing a 1960’s George Peppard movie called ” The Carpetbaggers ” ? A rough sketch of Howard Hughes and quite racy at the time. It’s title was taken from the scornful name given to Northern exploiters who flooded into the American South after the Civil War. Conmen, graspers, and get-rich-quick merchants…rather in…
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Stein’s Air World – We’re Hiring Now
I have been called to account by the Commitee of Scale Righteousness for the paint jobs on the aircraft that appear in Stein’s Air World. Several of the senior members have pointed out that there are glaring inconsistencies in the shade, hue, intensity, and reflectance of the various aircraft. I have been told that there…
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De Havilland Twin Otter- Part Six – Alta Oil CF-ALO
The Twin Otter lives again. And with a fresh coat of gloss paint, too. CF-ALO is now ready for delivery to Alta Oil flying out of Wet Dog Regional in Alberta. Her skis are stored in the hangar against winter and the wheels are in use today. WRRegional doesn’t really like pilots fitting them until…
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De Havilland Twin Otter – Part Five – Any Colour You Like
As long as it is white. Henry Ford is spinning in his grave. Civil aircraft all seem to start life as brides in white. From the factory demonstrator to the feeder-line delivery, they all get a gloss coat of white paint. I suspect it is cheap, durable, and meant to be highly visible. As well,…
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De Havilland Twin Otter – Part Four – They Said It Couldn’t Be Done
But they didn’t say it to me. When I saw the separate wings for the Twin Otter with no tab to fasten them back onto the fuselage, I started to worry. I know modern cements can do a great deal to weld plastic surfaces together but those long, thin wings stretch out quite a distance…
The Little World 