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Fiat CR.32 – Part Four – Under A Chinese Sun
The Fiat CR.32 is now ready to fight off the hordes of invading Japanese bombers from the Xú Jichâng airfield. The period of time between the last post and this one was spent painting the wheel sub-assemblies – an easy task – and putting them on the fuselage. This was also an easy task, giving…
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Fiat CR.32 – Part Two – Rosatelli Rocket
I had never heard about Celestino Rosatelli before I read the instruction sheet for this kit, but the story there was enough to send me looking at some of his other designs. They were mostly successful and few of them looked like clunkers, but as with most of the designs of the period I long…
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” I Don’t Like It “
Some people sing a song that goes on for an entire lifetime. Happy, sad, welcoming, or disdainful…it becomes their theme, regimental march, or daemon ear-worm. The main thing you need to do is detach yourself from it all, so that even if the noise continues for a whole lifetime, at least it isn’t your lifetime……
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And a Good Day To You…
Good days and bad days. Scale modelling has them both. How do you increase the number of the former while avoiding the latter? By exercising patience and good sense. Or by winning the Lotto and going stark mad. I cannot advise you which alternative to take, but if you choose the first, consider: A good…
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Com Pro Mise
Don’t turn away. And don’t make that noise in your throat. Compromise is not a filthy word. You’ll find this out soon enough when you are a scale model builder – particularly if you build from commercial kits. They have compromises on every sprue tree. You can also buy after-market brass approximations and resin-cast bad…
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When To Call It A Day
And when to call it a week…that point at which you decide to either finish the model or cut your throat. This is not as foolish a thought as first may seem. There will be more accessories and additions to the kit that you bought than you’ll have on hand. Scalemates shows 4 different mask…
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Patience? Patience? I’ve Had It Up To HERE With Patience!!!
You want me to wait until the cement dries? You want me to avoid touching the varnish? What kind of people ARE you? I sit, typing, when I could be busy spoiling a paint job or ruining a model by handling it too soon. The stress is killing me. I need to do something foolish…
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Farman NC 223.3 – Part One – A Packet Of French Letters
Specifically, SNCAC NC 223.3 B.N.5. Hereafter referred to as the Farman – it’s the only one in the stable so I don’t need to be specific. This Azur kit promises to be several weeks worth of advanced building – it is definitely short-run but of the better sort. There are only the vaguest of interior…
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Is Out Of The Box Too Humble For You?
Go to a fancy restaurant. Order an expensive meal – prepared by a Michelin-starred chef. Ask for tomato sauce; see what happens… To their great credit and lasting fame, the people who organise our Big Local Scale Model Exhibition always leave a section of the entry form for people who wish to build their model…
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Dornier Do-17Z – Part Two – ” We’re All In This Together…”
That catch phrase from the classic of Canadian culture – the Red Green Show – certainly applies to most of the German bombers I’ve seen – and particularly to the Dornier 17Z. The crew was large enough; a pilot, co-pilot, navigator, bombardier, gunner, and party political officer. There were only 5 seats for 6 crew…
