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Donny’s House
When I went to play at Donny’s house I made sure that I went to the bathroom at home first. Even if I didn’t have to go just then. It wasn’t a problem with dirty toilets – not that at all. That was a school problem, but as long as you didn’t need to do…
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When Life Gives You Lemons
Or excess oranges…squeeze them and refine the oil from the peel. Then bottle it and sell it as model building cement. Or food flavouring. Or whatever – just get the customer to give you the money. Whether the resultant oily liquid makes good cakes or sticks model airplanes together effectively is irrelevant. As long as…
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Frugal Week Not Finished
Just when you thought the opera was over… I was idly browsing for OO scale building kits on the internet with the specific of Canadian outline. This sounds like a hiding to nothing, as OO is a British size and most of their card kits and other model supplies are resolutely centred on the their…
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The House Of Cards
Or ” How I Learned To Glue My Fingers Together Blindfolded “. I have been engaged in building a card model from a Superquick kit. This is a bus depot that can moonlight as an airplane hangar. The makers even provide spare signage with an aviation theme. The kit is largely die-cut. Most of the…
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Bell Model 47 – Part Three – The Bubble
Well, that was a surprise. I opened the Italeri box one morning at the modelling club and the helicopter landed, finished, on my studio table at 4:30 PM next day. And there was time in between working on it to put the camouflage colours on the CH-147 Chinook. I’ve no idea what this indicates in…
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Bell Model 47 – Part One – Sheer Terror Over the Brazeau
Being a kid whose dad was the project manager for a big construction project had its advantages – you got to ride out with him after supper when he made the evening round of the construction site and you got to climb all over the big tractors and earthmovers. In some cases, if they had…
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The Junkman Cometh
And is damned proud of it, at his age. Now back to the Little Workshop. All junk is not junk. Some junk is junque – witness the sort of things that twee secondhand shops import from Pakistan and sell as genuine. Junque indeed. Some junk is material that is just resting between engagements. The box…
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Yellow Sky In The Morning…
Modellers take warning. Have you ever looked at the box art of the plastic kits and wondered at the meteorology of it all? I took some time last week to survey the skies displayed inside the kit aisle of Hobbytech and found that they were predominantly yellow. Well, three colours, actually; yellow, orange, and lurid.…
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How Much Movement Do You Need To Be Alive?
If you are lichen…not a lot. Then again, you’ll never get to see much of the world on your holidays. You’ll end up being jealous of the toadstools and mushrooms…because they are such fungis…* The question is how much action do you need to have in your Little World to make it come alive –…
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Boeing Vertol CH 147 Chinook – Part Five – Whatever Happened To Sky??
Specifically, whatever happened to the colour Sky as applied to the underside of British and Commonwealth aircraft? The underside of this Canadian CH 147 Chinook seems distinctly visible, as the bronze-black and deep green camo scheme – as admirable as it seems on the top and sides of the helicopter – wrap around down under…
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