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Good Morning Walter – Part Eleven – Playing Shops
Walter, if you’re anything like me, you enjoy going to the shops. Sometimes it may seem a little boring to go to department stores with your Mum to buy things like drapes or towels ( and in the 50’s all department stores were painted beige and they were deserts of boredom…) but if you endure…
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Grumman Martlet Mk. IV – Part Two – Well Done Airfix
There is a fine line in scale aircraft modelling…and if you’re not careful you scrape it right off with an Xacto knife… No, there’s a fine line between not enough detail and too much. ie. the French Mach 2 for the former and the Czech Special Hobby for the latter. With the Chinese Hobby Boss…
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Grumman Martlet Mk IV – Part One – The Option For Disaster
And guess who’s going to take it… They often say that you should choose the sin that you’ve never committed before just to keep things interesting. I don’t know about the sin bit, but the chance to build a model in a new way has attracted my eye. A lot of aircraft put onto aircraft…
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The Scale Of My Problem
I have a problem*. The scale of my model airplanes is 1:72 – and that is the general scale to which I wish to build my model airfields. I have been lucky so far – the British card kits from Superquick and Metcalf are mostly in 1:72 or 1:76 ( an acceptable compromise ) and…
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The Bow Pen Revisited
An earlier post mentioned the draughtsman’s bow pen as an instrument to paint the lines on 1:72nd canopies and I sad I was going to experiment with it. Experimentation finished, I have decided that it is the preferred method of work for the future. I admire the people who can mask canopies and spray paint…
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” It’s Very Toy-Like “
Ever hear that said when someone is looking at a die-cast product in the shop? Or a plastic kit with only a few parts? Ever hear it when someone is looking at a painted scale model? And said with a sneer in the voice? Well if it is ever said to you, or of your models,…
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Spitfire Mk IX – Part Five – Nothin’ Says Lovin’
Like Hispano Suiza 20mm cannon. And they can be affectionate out to quite a considerable distance. Far better at a cocktail party than a .303 machine gun. Well, the British wanted to be as friendly as they could in WW II and ended up equipping a number of their fighters with this sort of auto-cannon.…
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Good Morning, Walter – Part Ten – The Doll Houses
Walter, there are more things under Heaven and Earth than we suspect, and it is a great joy when we come across something new. I found this so for my Little World when I discovered the doll house societies. There are a number of them here in the Perth metropolitan area, and I would be…
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Spitfire Mk IX – Part Four – Is This A Decal Or A Tarpaulin?
I spent one morning recently decalling airplanes – a simple but delightful exercise in cut and paste. The surfaces of the planes were a clear smooth gloss and the first two decal sets – from Hobby Boss – were all that you could want. They were not pretentious markings – just stars, numbers, and a…
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Spitfire Mk IX – Part Two – The Patchwork Quilt
I am always in awe of the kit builder who has every seam perfect, every wheel straight, and every panel line scribed out. Awe and horror. Awe, horror, and unreasoning anger… Well, it’s not quite that bad, but I do regard perfection with some suspicion. Fortunately the Matchbox Spitfire Mk IX is a very soothing…
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