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Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part Eight – The Reverse Of The Coin – A Belated Episode
***This post seems to have been left out of the saga of the Boeing Fortress Mk III. I guess the scheduling on the WordPress site is getting out of hand a little. Read it anyway – It’ll fill you in on what happened between No. 7 and No. 9. *** I am never sure whether…
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Good Morning, Walter – Part Four – Lead Us Not Into Temptation
Whitemetal us…or Zamac us. But no lead. You are lucky these days, Walter. Many of the hazards of the olden times are gone. No more Hitler, no more smallpox, and no more lead soldiers. I was never in any real danger from the first two but I was exposed to the last ones. And I…
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The Dawning Of Peace
Have you ever been in the middle of an internal war? When your heart says ” I must have it! “…and your brain says ” You cannot afford it! ” and then the two organs glare and spit at each other? It is particularly likely when you have just been to the hobby shop or…
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The Return Of The Chinese Junk
When I was a kid in the 50’s there were dime stores that sold goods cheaply. In some cases they were cheap goods – particularly if they were plastic toys from Hong Kong. There was a particularly brittle form of plastic that was used in toy factories that was moulded into all sorts of workable…
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OD’ing On Olive Drab
Is it just me or is it hard to find The True Meaning Of Olive Drab? I need to paint a number of USAAF planes and I am going to avoid the flashy multicolour of nose art and loud decals. I just want cooking quality Army ships for a diorama. You’d think that Olive Drab…
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Walk In Or Walk Out?
And we’re not talking about wing walks either. I want a kit. And a specific kit – having done my research in regard to it. Its the best for my purpose – and good news – it was a new Airfix release late last year and has been seen in the local hobby shop in…
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Ongoing Maintenance
I did not realise that there would be a schedule of maintenance on a plastic model – I thought once it was done, that was it. Silly me. There is maintenance on anything that you need to continue working – car, marriage, camera, etc. The models are no different. a. There will be cleaning issues.…
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Boeing Fortress Mk. III – Part Ten – All Right For Ops
It all came good – as much due to the precision of the Airfix company as to my own skill. The Birthday Boeing is complete and ready to go into the museum. I’ve indulged myself a little with the Nik Collection software in this final report- they do a plug-in for Photoshop that converts regular…
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Good Morning, Walter – Part Three – Steel vs Wood vs Plastic
Walter, you and your Mum may have been wondering why I went off on a tangent about Meccano, Erector, and Dux sets last time we spoke. Let me explain. We live in a world of plastic. It’s a wonderful material and can be made to simulate nearly anything – from bricks to steel girders, to…
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Boeing Fortress Mk.III – Part Nine – Not A Good Idea, Max
Well that was a bust, albeit ultimately a successful one. The plan to carefully spray between the lines – with a Tamiya rattle can – was reasonably stupid thinking on my part. You saw in the last column where I just did the overall brown and went on as per normal. The camo lines were…
The Little World 