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Northrop BT 1 – Part Six – The Arcane Scheme
I occasionally go to our local bottle shop and buy beer or wine. It is a big shop and has hundreds of varieties of booze, and the only way to differentiate before you buy is by the labels. I have given up being a gourmet or a gourmand and have finally come down to being…
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Northrop BT 1 – Part One – The Bargain Bomber
I took advantage of a stash sale one time to purchase a number of never-to-be-seen-again model kits. You’ve already seen one of the Eastern European maker’s short-run planes – the Mitsubishi ” Ann “- in this column before. This Northrop is the accompanying model – a contemporary in the air in the early 1940’s. This…
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The Catalogue
Or catalog, if you wish. The list of goods – the bill of fairly inexpensive toys. The play-list for the listless. I have set out to make a record of my own model collection – prompted by the sight of a late club-mate’s models retrieved to our clubhouse and set out on shelves. They are…
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Repairing Our Mistakes
If we repair our mistakes we gain a great deal of control over our modelling. And it can make us better workers. a. We recognise a mistake. This is better when we do it before we commit it…sort of dry-fit your way out of danger – but even if we have gone all the way…
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” Paint Parts Before Assembly “
” What? Instructions? We laugh at your instructions! Real men glue everything together first and then mask for a week to paint something! We don’ need no estinkin’ instructions… An’ as far as dat go, we decal before we paint. We decal any time we damwell feel like! Nobody tell us when to decal. An’…
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Note To Self:
And self really needs to take note: a. Paint on a brush may go where you intend it. Paint on a finger never does. b. Near enough is close enough is good enough is never enough. c. Cement runs both ways – down the brush and up the brush. But never in the amount you…
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Junkers Ju52 – Part Four – Czech Junk
Old Czech junk. Actually old French junk that was foisted on the Czechs. And happy they were to get it, too. The scheme of the Junkers 52 that you see in the finished product is listed as being in service with the Police Air Service in 1950. A bit of googling shows that the Police…
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Junkers Ju52 – Part Three – Hugo’s Ghost
Hugo Junkers died in 1935. May he rest in peace. What I am left speculating about is; was he buried in a corrugated coffin? All the Junkers planes I have built so far have featured this form of sheet metal and I am starting to think it would have been a nice touch if he…
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Junkers Ju52 – Part Two – The Four-part Fuselage
The Potez bomber that Mister Craft boxed up from a Heller mould had a distinctive four-sided fuselage that lent itself to IKEA construction. So does the Junkers 52 – as long as you get the elements in registration it all goes very well. But that doesn’t mean that you can wipe round the edges, clap…
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Junkers Ju52 – Part One – Vanilla, Please…
What? Straight out of the box? No complicated build? No sheet of arcane decals? No aftermarket resin kit? Just the thing you bought off the shelf? What sort of a monster are you? A tired one. Tired of the bullshit of trying to re-make every single kit into something weird. Tired of having to second-guess…
The Little World 