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When You Take The Leap Of Faith
And it works. I tried a new technique in the construction of scale model parts. I needed a hollow engine cowling for a bomber and had a similarly-sized one to use as a master model. A few weeks ago I embedded this master in a casting box made of cheap cardboard and poured two-part silicone…
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Not Every Good Idea…
Is good. Brains do burp occasionally… One of my episodes these last few months centred around building some 1/144 scale fighter planes – my Fifty Cent Fighters. The kits went together well and the painting was a lot of fun; a lot more successful than I expected. But one of my ideas for putting the…
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Is There Life After Enamel?
Now that everyone uses acrylics? Yes. We may have lost Testors but there is still Humbrol. You may have cut your teeth on them, grown to hate them, but now are curious about them. Find a test-bed model…something you can afford to ruin. Sand it, prime it, and grab a dear old a Humbrol pot.…
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Pride Is A Cheap Emotion
Well it is, if you do it right. Scale modelling can be done with pretty nearly any purse…though the hobby shops would like you to browse on the expensive shelves. The prices can rise to pretty nearly any level that you could name. People who purchase and build the expensive kits can generally be assured…
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SAAB J22 – Part Three – Defender Of Neutrality
You have to give the Swedes credit for neutrality. Otherwise they might sell themselves to your enemies. Perhaps this is a little harsh on them. They have not been officially at war for over 200 years, though they were key players in Scandinavia and Middle Europe prior to that. They made a number of enemies…
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The Stash Sale Guide
Or how to do yourself either a lot of good or a serious injury… Stash sales are going on all the time – people decide to thin their collection of unbuilt kits for many reasons. Some need the money – some need the space – some need relief from the pressure of family expectations. Or…
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Is it Puttering Or Pottering?
I mean the faffing about that you do in between builds. The tidying up of the workshop and the sharpening of tools. The filling of thinner bottles and the tossing out of dried-up paint. The time when you blow down the air compressor tank and then have to wash the floor. When you vacuum up…
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Better Is The Enemy Of Good
Just as happier is the enemy of happy. Once you introduce comparison you have picked a rotten apple off the tree and are headed out of Eden. Because you have discovered that there is something you don’t have and that something is MORE. Were you happy with your food, you would not be hungry for…
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Douglas Skyray F4D – Part Two – Peacetime Colours
Or at least as peaceful as a Cold War aircraft could get… I am always happy to see military aircraft in bright colours – the yellow wings of the pre-war US Navy – the dazzling squadron codes of the pre-war RAF – the bright stripes of the pre-war Italians. Because brightly coloured aircraft are not…
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Geezers
Pilots, aircrew, figures…whatever you prefer to call them. They were once included with all scale model aircraft kits – now they are rarely seen. The only reason my RCN Grumman Tracker has them is that it is a very old stash kit. The quality of the mouldings is marginal, but far surpasses those moulded in…
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