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Peas And Carrots – Part Four – The Top Coat
The top coat on a model is intended to seal the decals in place and give the surface whatever sort of reflectivity you feel is appropriate. Night bombers might have a matt or semi-matt surface while civilian planes get a satin or gloss finish. I am partial to the latter myself for some of the…
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Peas And Carrots – Part Three – The First Sealer
The first clear coat on the paint mule chips was meant to duplicate the sealer that one puts on after the paint job is completed to allow decals to be applied without silvering. The US and UK modellers speak of using Future or Kleer acrylic floor polish for this. I tried three of the new…
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Peas And Carrots – Part Two – The Colour Coats
Why peas and carrots? Because they are vegetables that always look better in the images on the cans than they do on your plate – and they are always greener or more orange in someone else’s dinner. My experiments are designed to improve their colour and flavour on mine. The colour paint coats that went…
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Peas And Carrots – Part One – Haunting the Shops
And paint mules. A fine dinner combination, but you have to be trained up to the taste. Today has been another day spent in the Lawrence Liverwurst labs, experimenting with finishing materials. I have seen intriguing advertisements for different clear coats and decided to see if they were indeed the El Dorado of painting. I…
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No Stash
Gasp! Shock! Horror! What kind of monster would say that? No stash? No collection of model kits carefully stored for the future? No hours spent gloating over future happiness or profit? What sort of world…? Well, a world of immediacy – of freshness – of learning and instant gratification. A chance to be a kid…
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The New Airbrush Debuts
The new Mr. Hobby Procom WA airbrush has been on the hose for over a week now and a variety of material has flowed through the nozzle – time for first impressions report. The facility of dialing the air pressure up or down through the gun with a small knob under the colour cup is…
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How Much Does Your Hobby Cost?
And the related question: how much should it cost? Let’s explore the idea for scale modelling by taking it away to another hobby. Let’s choose, oh I don’t know…historical reenacting*. Dressing in period clothing, making and using period tools and weapons, camping and campaigning in a carefully researched old style. A good thing to do and…
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1931 Ford Model A – Part Seven – Aw Shit…
Well there we was just driving along heading back to Missoula, and all of a sudden there was this damn noise. We knew it couldn’t be anything good, so we stopped. We were right. The Minicraft 1931 Ford Model A has come to a halt by the side of the road. It has been a…
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1931 Ford Model A – Part Six – The Ick Begins
I wish I had a vial of dirt from every continent. Then I could mix up weathering paint colours accurately. As it is, I use red paints for Australia and neutral browns for Europe. Not sure what Montana looks like under the grass. But nothing daunted, I decided to get the Ford dirty. An acrylic…
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1931 Ford Model A – Part Five – Did I Come Here To Dio?
No, you came here yesterdio…* Well, I am going to have a model, instead of a pile of parts in a box. It has been staring me out of countenance for three years and I am finally getting to grips with it. And as these things go, the grip gets just that little bit more…
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