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Bellanca Pacemaker – Part One – Or Is It?
I have become suspicious about this Dora Wings model of a Bellanca CH-300 now that the box is open and I can see the instructions. They refer to it as a ” Peacemaker “. Was I meant to have a B-36 in the box? Never mind – I’ll build what I found. And what I…
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Shoot Low, Boys.
They’re riding shetlands. The magazines that are published monthly, and bought yearly, all seem to praise extraordinary efforts put into scale kit building. It often involves extraordinary expense as well as inordinate time. The model engineer hobby is the prime example of this; years spent making a workshop – to spend more years making specialized…
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Tupolev ANT-5 – Part Four – Trebly Armed…
On a wing and a half. This model of the Tupolev ANT-5…or 4 – it’s hard to make head or tail of the Soviet numbering system – is a curate’s egg in many respects. The basic kit is buildable, but there are breakable parts that do so and then need to be joined with cement…
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The Irony Of It All
The use of bright yellow and bright green to attract the eye is a pretty standard practice in construction and road building – vehicles, structures, and people are all decked out accordingly to make sure someone sees them in the confusion of a building site. And the colours are all so bright and solid. Yet…
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Where’s You Bin All My Life?
In de bin? Well, you-all come on outta dere. You needed. Every day we discard; possessions, loved ones, opportunities to become rich quick…and packaging. Lordy, how we do throw away packaging. Because the people who sell us food and clothes and devices package the stuff up way past the point of no-return. Probably because they…
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Aichi Seiran – Part Four – Underwater Bomber
I puzzled a bit at the Tamiya box for this float-plane. No Allied code-name. Normally they give that to let people know what it was called – but this one wasn’t called anything…I suspect the Allies never saw one flying. It was meant to be an attack bomber carried by a very large submarine –…
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Aichi Seiran – Part One – A Bargain
And a Tamiya bargain at that – you don’t see many of those around the shops these days! I cannot say whether this Aichi Seiran float plane model was inexpensive because it was unpopular, or unpopular because it was an old kit, or an old kit because it was inexpensive…that sort of circular logic is…
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Stupid Science Theatre
France, Stein, and the Temple Of Thinners A scientific exploration of how to ruin paint. All you ever wanted to know about nothing you cared about. We have all been to a hobby shop or a club where advice was being given out. We’ve been told we need Product A to spray Product B from…
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Lima Beans And Spinach
Some people like lima beans. Some like spinach. Some cannot stand either vegetable*. If they are in a restaurant it’s easy – they don’t order either. If they are eating at the family table or someone else’s house the problem becomes more difficult. They may have a heaping helping steaming there on the plate and…
The Little World 