Category: Workshop
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Bristol Beaufighter – Part Three – The Principle Of Opposing Forces
Relax. This isn’t a political philosophy book. It’s still about plastic airplanes. The warped Airfix Beaufighter fuselage has been tamed. It took all day to do what might have been accomplished in a half hour, but we were on lockdown and time was elastic. The warp in the fuselage also warped the perception of how…
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A Lesson Learned
The smart people learn by reading, the less smart learn by listening, and the least smart end up pissing on the electric fence themselves. The recent club renovations and the destruction that could be wrought on plastic models by repeated moving set me thinking; the reading, listening and pissing came later. There are a number…
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MiG23 – Part Three – Ivan Seryy
The Academy kit went together really well, though it felt a little weird to not do a cockpit at all and to close in all the open bits. Academy models are always rewarding – probably because they used to be Hasegawa models and they were also rewarding. Ivan has several special features incorporated to perform…
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MiG 23 – Part Two – The Plunge
Deciding to make a sacrifice is a daunting thing – whether it is the business of culling your shirt collection and binning some or leading a chain of captives to the top of the ziggurat, you are faced with a decision; something’s going to be traded for something and you need to make sure that…
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MiG 23 – Part One – Getting An Ivan
If you are a subscriber to the Flory Models vlog or website you will have hear him speak about “ Buster”. Buster is a Chance Vought Crusader in 1:32, I believe. He has lost his landing gear and a good deal of his flying surfaces. He has lost his canopy. You might think he has…
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The Awkward Sound
The awkward sound of scale models breaking is one that you never want to hear, but that you are bound to encounter at sometime in your hobby career. If you are lucky, it will be you breaking your own kit, and no one else involved. Unfortunately there is more than one kind of luck. I…
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Stop Laughing – This Is Serious
Stan Cross fans will recognise the reference… The red plastic cup is my scale model club coffee cup. Taken faithfully every Tuesday for my 50¢ cup of coffee in preference to the club cups which are washed every coentury or so… It is a Decor cup with a plastic lid and keeps things fine and…
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The Perils Of the Hot Box
Now we’re not talking about a broken bearing f on a railroad car – the proverbial North American ” hot box ” that leads to the failure of the axle and derailment of the train. No, our hot box is the plastic curing box that sits on top of an electric oil-reservoir heater in the…
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Douglas C-47 – Part Three – One Day
Well, it was a temperate and pleasant summer day and no-one needed me, so I just popped the top on the Italeri kit, washed the sprue trees, and got on with it. The component parts you see here laid out ready for temporary or permanent assembly were the result of about 5 hours of cutting,…
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Douglas B-18 Bolo – Part Two – Mr Color Super Metallic
I mentioned that bottle of silver last post. The Mr. Color Super Metallic that has just appeared. Well, I bought a bottle because that’s what you do when you take off your blinkers in the paint aisle of the Hobbytech shop. It’s a fatal move, as you will always see something new that you haven’t…
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