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Post Mask Masking
The rise in the hobby of airbrushing models is the best business gift that could ever have been handed to the makers of masking tape. It they are prepared to slice it, we are prepared to buy it…and at exorbitant prices. And we’re prepared to use it lavishly. Everyone I know who does plastic kits…
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Seriously New Decals
Having painted a picture of myself as a miserable skinflint who wouldn’t pay a penny for a souvenir piece of the rope that they’ll eventually use to hang the Prime Minister, I must correct this. I would. And I pay for good quality aftermarket parts if they are necessary – and there is nothing more…
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Lockheed F80C Shooting Star – Part Three – O Amigo Da Onça
” You are looking very well today, Senora…” And if you are old enough to know the joke to which that is the punch line, you may keep reading. If you know who Amigo Da Onca is, you may sit right down here with me and we’ll share a bottle of cachaca. You may wonder…
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Lockheed F80C Shooting Star – Part One – When Men Were Men…
And boys were boys…and kit manufacturers were not afraid to put silver colour into the plastic models. This old Airfix Shooting Star was in the $ 10 rack at the Sandown Park model show and as it was complete, I couldn’t resist. Even if it did not strike my main chord as a jet ,…
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Seriously Old Decals
By a serious old modeller. I seem to be turning into the olde cheape modeller these days…and loving it. The number of older kits that have fallen into my hands lately suggests that I am either dumpster diving for my hobby or other people are not recognising the value of their own possessions before they…
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Good Morning, Walter – Part 15 – Aluminium Overcast
Walter, the term ” Aluminium Overcast ” has been laughingly applied to a number of large aircraft in the past. But I think the only true claimant is the Convair B-36 ” Peacemaker ” bomber of the 1950’s. The heading image is of a Revell model of the 1955-57 period. The scale is anyone’s guess…
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Seibel Si 204A – Part Three – Airframe Day
Ah, that lovely plateau in the model kit build – when the wings and tail are on and magically you do not have a plastic kit in a box – you have an aircraft. The short run Czech nature of the mouldings having been adjusted with knife, chisel*, and sandpaper and a good set of…
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Siebel Si 204A – Part One – The RRA’s New Airliner
The Royal Ruritanian Airways occupies and envied position in European aviation – it has never had a crash landing. This is not to say that there have never been hurried ones, or landings that haven’t strained the oleo struts to their squeaking maximum – but so far every touchdown has been on the tyres –…
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Finally – Products that Do What They Promise
Having stuffed things up for years when it got to the final stages of a project – through incautious spray painting or impatience – I have finally gotten products that will do what I need. I tip my Little Workshop hat to Testors for their Dullcote and to Supercheap Auto for their clear acrylic lacquer.…
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Resin – Do I Love It Or Hate It?
My return to scale aircraft modelling these last few years has brought me into contact with one of the most interesting materials on the market – polyurethane resin. It is not the first time that I’ve dealt with building plastic – I worked with acrylic polymers and monomers as a dentist for 40 years and…
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