Category: Weathering
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OD’ing On Olive Drab
Is it just me or is it hard to find The True Meaning Of Olive Drab? I need to paint a number of USAAF planes and I am going to avoid the flashy multicolour of nose art and loud decals. I just want cooking quality Army ships for a diorama. You’d think that Olive Drab…
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Sandown Park 2019 – Part Nine – The National Capitol
Australia is similar in many respects to Canada and the United States of America – we all established separate and specific cities for the seats of our national governments. And we elect representatives from our disparate states or provinces to go and sit there. In earlier days this was a great comfort, but now that…
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Sandown Park 2019 – Part Six – Before You Ask…
Back from my visit to the Victorian scale model exhibition, all my parcels have arrived, and I’ve reviewed the pictures taken on the day. Someone is bound to ask me which exhibit I thought best. After due consideration, here it is: Olympic Doughnuts in Footscray. A real model of a real place in real time.…
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Sandown Park 2019 – Part Two – Tanks For The Memories
I am not really an armoured vehicle person as yet. It is not an aversion – just a lack of attraction. Perhaps this will alter in the future, though I hope I will not have to step to yet another scale if I do try it. 1:72 and 1:76 seem to be rewarding enough. I…
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North American AT6 – Part Five – One From Column A…
And one from Column B. That’s how you make an air force out of bits from the scrap heap. That’s how the Israelis did it in ’48. I’ve been reading of the formation of the IAF and the war of independence against the Egyptians, Jordanians, Lebanese, Syrians, and British. It would appear that the supply…
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The Danger To Navigation
I shall call him Bill. Bill The Weatherman. The danger to navigation that they are always speaking about on the News At Ten. I shouldn’t wonder if there wasn’t a file on him down at the Admiralty. You see, Bill wrecks things. Cheerfully, and with great abandon. He does it on a professional basis if…
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North American Mustang I – Part Five – A Dappled Horse
Well, the Mustang is on charge and will be conveyed to RCAF Wet Dog in a day or so. It is as fresh as many coats of paint and varnish can make it – the decision to begin weathering the models has been postponed for a few months. The final result of this experimental build…
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North American Mustang I – Part Four – Yamaguchi And Spruance
Look ’em up. Admirals Yamaguchi and Spruance – opponents at the Battle of Midway. Both got an aircraft carrier shot out underneath them. But their subsequent actions when their carriers were unsavable is the point of difference. Yamaguchi stood on his bridge with the sinking ship and he and a number of other Japanese officers…
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1931 Ford Model A – Part Seven – Aw Shit…
Well there we was just driving along heading back to Missoula, and all of a sudden there was this damn noise. We knew it couldn’t be anything good, so we stopped. We were right. The Minicraft 1931 Ford Model A has come to a halt by the side of the road. It has been a…
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1931 Ford Model A – Part Six – The Ick Begins
I wish I had a vial of dirt from every continent. Then I could mix up weathering paint colours accurately. As it is, I use red paints for Australia and neutral browns for Europe. Not sure what Montana looks like under the grass. But nothing daunted, I decided to get the Ford dirty. An acrylic…
The Little World 