Category: Utility Models
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Mil 24 Hind F – Part Two – How Green Was My Helo
I am prepared to defend my choice of blue-green for the interior of this aircraft for hours. Provided you bring the drinks. I sourced the shade from an internet image of Czech Mil 24 that they had handed over to the Ukrainian Air Force. It was remarkably clean in the picture but the interior here…
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Open Form Modelling
You might think that individuality and enterprise would be rewarded enough in scale modelling when we choose one of the options on the kit instructions. Or when we go the whole hog and get a packet of aftermarket resin or brass. Past that, there are the heady heights of what-iffery and enthusiast sci-fi to absorb…
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CAC Wirraway – Part One – The Challenge
Apparently that is what the word translates to from one of the aboriginal languages. In modern day terms it was one of the licence-built derivatives from a North American design – the root of which gave us the Yale, Harvard, Texan, and NA 16. And probably a Soviet copy somewhere, if they ran true to…
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VVS Tupolev SB2 – Part Two – The Honourable Amphibian
Do not despise the frog… The name of FROG models has been in the modellers dictionary for a very long time – and many of the kits that this British firm made are still turning up on the second-hand market as re-pops from older Russian factories. This NOVO Tupolev was boxed in the Soviet era…
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Should You Be First?
Here’s the scenario: Super Hobby Good Times Model Kit Cooperative produces the first-ever model of the Benoit-Farquarrson medium bomber. You can get it in Tanganyikan, Ecuadorian, or Moldavian markings – armed with either blunderbusses or cruise drones. There are PE parts, resin parts, and a genuine wooden voodoo idol included with the kit. Should you…
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Higgins LCVP – Part Two – The Built-up Barge
I can be no more complimentary than to refer to this Airfix landing craft as a barge. I admire barges. My whole family admired them – so much so that we built them for years for service on Canadian rivers and lakes. To our credit, none of them ever sank. The LCVP kit from Airfix…
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The Nearly Model
We’ve all had the experience of seeing an item on the shelf of a decor store antique palace that looks like a model from a distance – but a dust catcher from close up. Not that real scale models do not catch dust…it is just that the decor items are stuff that is churned out…
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The Commander Of Leftover Air Base
The home of the 103rd Tactical Kit Boxes. Our motto: ” What The Heck Is This? “ It is a heavy responsibility to be the grate at the bottom of the scale modelling drain. To be the hobbyist that follows the parade of kits with a broom and a shovel. To be the person under…
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What Does A Free Model Teach You?
If chance brings a free model kit to your bench, what should you do? a. Thank the donor profusely. b. Bear it away unopened and when alone, look inside. c. Whatever the state of the contents, do not panic. There might be gold or iron pyrites in there, and you may have to actually build…
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If Someone Gives You A Free Lemon
Squeezing it is optional. The free scale model kit may be a present or a practical joke. If it is your birthday or Christmas it’s most likely to be the former. If someone hands you a forty-year-old kit box that looks as if it’s been run over in the driveway, the circumstance may be different.…
The Little World 