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Bomber In A Box
No, it’s not a horrible new addition to home delivery of food and parcels. This bomber is in a box for a good reason. When you start a collection of scale models, you really need to start with the biggest darn one you’re ever going to build and work back from that. Then, when you…
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Isuzu TX-40 – Part Two – Now You See Him
Yoshi is a driver for the Imperial Japanese Army on Lakanuki Island. He is in charge of the refuelling truck. Always impeccable in his freshly-pressed uniform, he wheels the Isuzu TX-40 around the airfield servicing army and navy planes as they land and take off. Everyone else on the island is dressed in rags and…
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Isuzu TX-40 – Part One – Fuel For The Empire
You never think of the more humble vehicles in war – the dump trucks, re-fuelling trucks, and dustcarts. Yet they were manned by service personnel just as dedicated as the tankers and aircrew they served. I always leap on 1:76 service vehicles when I find them in the hobby shop. This Isuzu showed up at…
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The Big Local Scale Model Exhibition – Part Six – Mark Your Calendar
But make sure you have an eraser, because you can’t tell when you might have to start rubbing things out. The Big Local Scale Model exhibition has run very well for quite a number of years. It seems to have been the 21st one this year and that would have been a higher number except…
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The Big Local Scale Model Exhibition – Part Five – The Quest For Novelty
One of the charms for me when I attend the doll-house ladies’ exhibition, or that of the model railway enthusiasts – is the novelty of the models and exhibits. I preserve this freshness by attending only one of these per year – one year it will be the doll-houses and next the trains. Every time…
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The Big Local Scale Model Exhibition – Part Three – The Prize-Giving
Most prize ceremonies I attend are sort of add-on affairs for me. I am never entered for any contests, and unless I have been asked to judge something, the events go off without any personal input. Yet, it is nice to see people rewarded for their efforts, Scale modellers spend months making their contest entries…
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The Big Local Scale Model Exhibition – Part Two – More Visitors
Well, that was better. Sunday, the hall was full of visitors, and we even had more to the build-a-kit section. This meant the people nearest the table needed to help with the youngsters – under the supervision of their parents. Sprue cutters were lent out; sandpaper sticks as well. Most of the really young ones…
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The Big Local Scale Model Exhibition – Part One
Well, there we were – the morning of the Big Local Scale Model Exhibition. And I was off to do my bit. 5:00 AM: Up and clean for the show. Loaded the car with the 6 little airfields plus a model box to work on – and a sandwich for lunch. I live locally, so…
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Katyusha M13 – Part Two – Truckin’
Apparently the basic design for this class of Soviet trucks is an American vehicle of the 1930’s, though I don’t know if it is meant to be Ford or Chevrolet. In any case they adapted it to all sorts of roles at the time, as they did for many vehicles in the 1950’s and 50’s.…
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Katyusha M13 – Part One – Never Look A Gift Rocket In The Nozzle
Drifting past the club work table one day I was delighted when a club mate handed me a small kit box and asked whether I’d like it for free. It was not the scale or sort of item he makes, so It was going spare. I think it originally came from a third member, being…
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