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Boeing-Vertol CH 147 Chinook – Part Three – Miniature Misgivings
When constructing a kit I have learned to look at the instructions carefully. Then ignore a certain percentage of them – in particular the ones that ask me to glue on small breakable bits early in the piece. If I do so, I condemn myself to great anxiety over them ever after. There is a…
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Boeing-Vertol CH 147F Chinook – Part Two – You Want What?
I was taken aback. Normally the makers of plastic models do not expect you to saw them apart as soon as you open the box. Italeri did, though…and it was in a good cause. ‘Cause the Boeing company had made drastic changes to the sides of their Chinook helicopter and Italeri had to follow on.…
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Boeing-Vertol CH 147F Chinook – Part One – The Flying Bread Box
Okay, okay, I know. But that was what it looked like when I opened the box. It is the first of the modern twin-rotor helicopters I’ve encountered and I had no idea what the size of it was going to be. This is the second part of my fee-for-service I earned taking portraits and it…
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Unsticking – Part Three – The Results
Well the experiment went as planned – I waited 24 full hours before masking and spraying two mules. I checked that the red surfaces felt absolutely dry, then used both the cheap and the expensive masking tape to make a pattern. A spray with the vile turquoise colour and an hour’s wait until it had…
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Unsticking – Part Two – The Experiments
The mules were back in business today – 8 plastic panels coated with aqueous acrylic paint – 4 with the same Mr. Hobby gloss red that featured on the Piasecki Flying Banana – four with a Tamiya flat red. I sprayed, then let the paint cure in a hot workshop for a couple of hours.…
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Unsticking – Part One – The Problem
A recent paint job that required three colours sprayed onto a model aircraft fuselage went pretty well – the lightest colour first and then two more in layers with masking tape application between the coats. I have the business of dilution and air pressure pretty well sussed for the types of paint. Note that in…
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Macchi MC 205 Veltro – Part Three – The Great Azure Blue Quest
I think I may claim a modest victory today. I pursued RAF Azure Blue paint and overtook it. The quest started with that RAF Digital colour chart I found on the net. It lists all the major paints used in WWII RAF aircraft, Shows them in a clear panel, and then gives the RGB and…
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Macchi MC 205 Veltro – Part Four – The Flying Fellah
Note to readers: This post went out in error several days ago – it was shelved and reopened today, to provide the final chapter. Wheter that makes any sense or not is debatable, but then this is me writing and you reading… See, I didn’t go mad after all. Or madder, if you want to…
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Macchi MC 205 Veltro – Part One – The Speedy Dog
Veltro apparently means ” greyhound ” in Italian and I cannot think of a better image for this WWII fighter. The long snout and the ability to fly at high speed are the first things that come to mind, but when you watch the canine greyhounds you see another characteristic of them; the habit of…
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No Business Like Show Business
Somewhere this afternoon a modeller is putting yet another coat of paint on their show model for the 2019 exhibition. In three days they will buff this off with the skin of an unborn albino ocelot and start to spray the next coat. Then the whole process will be repeated – it is going to…
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