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Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part Seven – Heddo?
Er, Hello. You seem a little stuffed up. ” Dell Be About it. By builder has arrived at primer stage and has spent all day stuffing things into be. ” Is that plastic foam? ” Yes. He got four big pieces of it whed a printer was delivered and is using them for everything. ”…
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Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part Six – My Conscience Is Clear
Now all I need to do is keep the blasted windows on this airplane in the same condition – and Airfix have been either brilliantly helpful or blithering idiots – I will find out later. I’m used to the canopies and cockpit covers of model aircraft being of varying quality – from the horrible Mach…
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Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part Five – Wings And Tail
The plan of doing work on the Boeing Fortress at our club meeting rooms is working well, if I remember that I need to paint some things at home with the airbrush first. The club spray room is in the process of reconstruction and in any case may not have the sort of items I…
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Good Morning, Walter – Part Two – The Nuts And Bolts
Walter, last time we talked I told you about the Minibrix building set and suggested that there are modern equivalents – like LEGO – that will let you erect great buildings. Here are some of them at the Western Australian Model Railway Exhibition. Pretty cool, and also pretty complex and expensive. I admire the thinking…
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Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part Four – Debut Day On The Club Bench
The Tuesday Soviet saw my new Airfix model box for the first time today and most seem to approve. I opened it up and started to study the instructions – fully intending to do most of the building on my Tuesdays to prolong the pleasure. The Airfix instructions are good – I experience little or…
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Good Morning, Walter – Part One – We Get To Building
Walter, I see your Mum has written a column about you and your life – I just read about your first visit to the dentist. I’m glad it was a good one -I used to be a dentist a decade ago myself. This column is about what I like to call the Little World –…
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Sandown Park 2019 – Part Eleven – What’s Big And Pink…?
And full of high explosives? Why Strawberry Bitch, of course. Not a popular airplane in Romania, though it did visit there some years ago. Not that it hung around – just popped in, dropped something off, and popped out again. Sort of like a pastel-coloured courier van. No-one signed for the parcels… The real SB…
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Sandown Park 2019 – Part Ten – Break Out The Spray Gun, Lars.
I’m feeling sentimental… You cannot laugh at the Finnish Air Force. If you do they swoop down on you and open up with cannons and rockets. The Finns have very little sense of humour. This is not surprising. They live in between two heavily-armed neighbours – the Swedes and the Russians – and in their…
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Sandown Park 2019 – Part Six – Before You Ask…
Back from my visit to the Victorian scale model exhibition, all my parcels have arrived, and I’ve reviewed the pictures taken on the day. Someone is bound to ask me which exhibit I thought best. After due consideration, here it is: Olympic Doughnuts in Footscray. A real model of a real place in real time.…
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Sandown Park 2019 – Part Five – A Red Star Track
When Red StarTrack deliver…you sign for it or else… This year’s exhibition pointed out something to me – the quantum shift in the scale modelling word from US and UK manufacture of plastic kits to makers behind the old Iron or Bamboo Curtains. With the moulding going to areas of former Soviet influence there are…
The Little World 