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PAINT!
Never mind eating or washing or sleeping. The temperature has become cooler, there is no wind , and the humidity is low. Get out there in the shed and spray for your life. Being a scale model builder in Western Australia is a peculiar life. We are marginally more dependent upon the weather than a…
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Now Available In The Convenient Can
There’s an advantage to be had by sticking to one brand of paint – every bottle is somewhat related to every other bottle. You can generally apply something onto something else without a flash and a bang. You might have to wait until layer A dries completely before you apply layer B but most times…
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Curtiss SBC-4 – Part Three – The Bad Bargains
The French paid through the nose for the Curtiss SBC-4 Helldivers. They were compelled to pay in gold bullion hauled to the USA by the aircraft carrier BÉARN, then forced to load them in Nova Scotia after they were towed over the international border, then forced to abandon them in the West Indies when metropolitan…
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Curtiss SBC-4 – Part Two – In Praise Of Heller
It is unfashionable in the British Commonwealth to speak well of the French. The old prejudices born of war and ambition stretch back as far as William the Conqueror and have been topped up and re-aligned every century since then. It goes the other way, of course – the French despise the English nearly as…
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Curtiss SBC-4 – Part One – The Old Photo In The National Geographic
I used to pore over wartime copies of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. I found a trove of them in a school library in the 1960’s and read all I could. I wasn’t after pictures of native girls with bare chests – I wanted colour photos of fighter planes. NG had access to the US Navy and Kodachrome…
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Imagination Is The New Word For Lying To Yourself
If you’re a fan of Facebook or any other general social media site you’ll have seen the memes that encourage you to imagine things. Many of them will have mountain scenes or unicorns and rainbows. I came from Alberta and used to live in the Crows Nest Pass, so I can testify to the accuracy…
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Well, It’s Not Gonna Buy Itself, Now Is It?
If you have any money, or a birthday coming up, or know where the household emergency cash is kept, you’re ready for a hobby shopping trip. But like every worthwhile and/or criminal activity, there are rules, and you’ll need to learn them. a. Do not shop on an empty stomach. When you try to concentrate…
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F-15 Eagle – Part One – The Gift Bird
If you are reading this I have conquered. Weeks have passed while I tried to post a simple blog about this Academy kit, but every time I tried it the WordPress system made something go missing. If I were a suspicious man I would think of censorship. The kit was the gift of a club…
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Paint Pot No. 2
The business of spray can and bottle was covered in a previous post. Now it’s the turn of the choice of alcohol/water acrylics and acrylic lacquers. Like a lot of people who remembered enamels, I commenced my latter-day modelling with alcohol/water acrylics. A well-known brand that starts with ” T “. The paints worked well,…
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Grey Is Not Gray
And unfortunately, it’s not grey, either. At least not the grey it was a minute ago. If the colour call-out sheet calls for grey, start sweating early. It will sometimes specify which grey it wants, but just when you think you’re safe, you’ll discover that it specifies it by: a. A paint maker’s paint number.…
The Little World 