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Convair 440 – Part Five – Good Customer Service
Those of you who have read the previous episodes of the Convair 440 might have thought me prejudiced about it. I hope not, because I have just had a wonderful example of good business behaviour. One of the propellers of the kit was a short-shot – the plastic did not go out into one blade.…
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Convair 440 – Part Four – When Life Gives You Lemons…
That meme and its associated parodies running through the brain, I’ve been doing a little research on the Mach 2 Convair 440 kit that I bought. It seems that there are a number of variants of it that share the plastic but change the decals, and a number of companies that have produced custom decals…
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Convair 440 – Part One – The Visitation
I went to a new hobby shop – Hobby Mania. It was up a flight of stairs and shared premises with an accountant’s office. No-wonder – the accountant has the shop as a personal hobby venture. He must be doing well enough – he had an employee there to show me the room of stock…
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Which Cement Shall I Use To Ruin My Sweater?
I’m glad that I own more than one garment – because I sure as heck own more than one kind of adhesive. I did not realise just how many until I got a kit that is moulded from cheese and determined to try out which would be best to stick it. In many respects it…
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” It Says So Right Here “
See? There’s even a three-way view of the plane. And you can see the pink lace curtains in the waist gunner’s position. And the snorkel and the chicken coop. It has to be true. Otherwise it wouldn’t be here in the book… I have read my fair share of small illustrated books on aircraft, vehicles,…
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Planning Permission Not Needed
Did you realise that when you are the creator of your own Little World that you do not need to admit others to your counsel? That you can act as sole dictator and arbiter of all disputes? It is a sobering thought that can make anyone feel drunk. I experienced it recently while laying out…
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I’ll Bet You’re Sorry Now…
a. Now that you’ve left me. You’ll ever get to watch me sit in front of the television swearing at a kit full of resin parts. You’ll miss stepping on gun turrets in the shag pile. You’ll never know how the Matchbox Privateer turned out. b. Now that you’ve switched from 1:12th scale supercar models…
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Step 3 – Cement Fuselage Halves Together And Clamp…
Awww. Dammit. Oh, blast the Czechs. Oh those dirty rotten sods… Bugger, bugger, bugger, bugger…
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De Havilland Mosquito Mk II – Part Seven – Challenges Must Yield To Science!
Part Six of the DH Mosquito Mk II saga showed the dull and sad paint job that I ended up with after failing to think properly about what I was doing – I sprayed a matting acrylic too heavily and cured it under too high a temperature. I regarded the result as a failure on…
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De Havilland Mosquito – Part Five – Can I Make A Mess?
Or can I what? Here are the in-progress shots of the Great Masking Adventure as it unfolded. Since it was entirely new ground, I cannot be sure whether I was doing it right. But the fact that nothing caught fire has to count as something good… Here’s the overnight result – surprisingly successful, with only…
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