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Convair 440 – Part Eight – Out Past Where The Buses Run
Those of you who are Kinky Friedman fans will know this phrase. It applies to a lot of the work on the Mach 2 Convair 440. Not the least being the choice to eschew the kit decals – big troublesome designs for an airline I do not know – and to paint the thing as…
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Convair 440 – Part Seven – Thinking Outside The Box
Getting a kit that is deeply flawed – or undertaking any other modelling task that is doomed to failure from the start – is a wonderful opportunity to put the prop on coarse, turn on the water injection, and shove the throttle past the military stop. You might as well see what the hell happens……
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Convair 440 – Part Six – Methinks They Doth Protest Too Much
Well fresh from the debacle of a failed paint job and the recovery of spirit when the paint job was partially saved, I decided to launch out on a voyage to the New World of Mach 2 kits – I finally hauled the Convair 440 out of the stash and started to work on the…
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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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