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De Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB.6 – Part One – Those Riotous Swiss
Congratulaions – you have coped with one vampire. now you can cope with another… One thing – you have to hand it to the Swiss. They’re a barrel of laughs. All you have to do is sell them a old jet fighter and they’re out with the paint pots making a carnival float out of…
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De Havilland DH.100 Vampire – Part Four – Whooooosh
Flying a Vampire must have been an exhilarating experience for pilots who had trained on propeller-driven aircraft. Or perhaps I should say propeller-pulled aircraft…as there were very few pusher planes past the WW1 era. Of course pilots who had flown with twin-engine bombers and other multi-craft would be used to a clear field in front…
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De Havilland DH.100 Vampire – Part Three – Tell Me The Truth, Doc
Don’t sugar coat the pill. Give it to me straight. I can take it. Is the Amodel kit going to go fit together or am I just going to end up sobbing in the corner? Well, actually, the news from Kiev is good. The basic pod of the Vampire goes together exceedingly well. If you…
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De Havilland DH.100 Vampire – Part Two – Czech Out The Cockpit – It’s Got Steppes…
Note: There are going to be a lot of Vampire posts in this column. If you are chiropterphobic look away now. As another modeller noted in his daily build column, the quality of fit on a small-run cockpit can be a variable matter. I approach all cockpit tubs, floors, or structures with trepidation these days…with…
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De Havilland DH.100 Vampire – Part One – Going A Little Batty…
I’m told I was scared by the De Havilland Vampire at an early age – my folks took me to the Calgary Stampede one year when I was about 3 and my dad had me perched on his shoulders when a flight of these new acquisitions to the RCAF flew low over the crowd. Apparently…
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Not Quite So Many Paints
Well, another day and another visit… I strolled down the paint aisle today to discover the SMS paints that I had reviewed yesterday gone from the shelves – an empty paint rack with their name on it where they once were. Leading me to a series of speculations: a. Did they not sell? They were…
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So Many Paints. So Many Choices. So Little Time.
I found myself agonising again in the paint aisle of Hobbytech. Not at prices or the paucity of paint – far from it. The prices are reasonable enough but the range of paints available is far greater than my discriminatory mechanism can cope with. I am past spoilt for choice – I am made anxious…
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When The Only 1:72 Game In Town…
Is: Reputed to be bad. Long sold out. Never seen locally. Not supplied by anyone else… …you are entitled to scuff your feet and make growling noises. I have been reviewing the chances of getting a 1:72 model of the Avro CF 100 Canuck interceptor and it would appear that this aircraft in model kit…
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North American P-51D – Part Three – Giving It The Hatzerim
Go look it up on Google for yourself. The IAF keeps a museum out in the Negev at Hatzerim AFB and parks their exhibits out in the sun. Which then gives them a unique sort of finish – kind of like sandblasting and a UV bake. ” Bozzy “, or old 41 – the P-51D…
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Boxing Day Is Only Good If You Need Boxes
And I do. In my cases I need boxes with plastic model airplane kits in them. This year I opted for the do-it-yourself-later option. I asked for gift vouchers for the local hobby shop. The good family delivered as requested and I am now cashed up for the next few months – whenever I need…
The Little World 