Category: YouTube videos
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Hangar Time

The second week of being in the hangar with my right wheel off is just finishing – though I am happy to say that I am not having antibiotics flushed through the hydraulic lines this week. You have no idea how awkward it is to go to the can when you have to drag a…
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Poor Quality Landing Gear Legs

I apologise to the readers of this column for leaving them to their own devices these last few days. I have not been arrested for debt or run off to shack up with a popsy. I am in hospital connected to one end of a septic leg… It is getting better and I have cheered…
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Nakajima ‘ Kate ‘ – Part One – The Tenuous Connection

These days I try to get some thread connecting me to the models and scenes that I build for my Little World. I didn’t always do this – as a kid I was just hungry for any and all models – I’d build what was given to me or what I could save up for…
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Little Bottles Of Success – Humbrol

I’ve been watching YouTube videos lately to see what other people do to build and paint model kits. In some instances I’ve been amazed at the reckless candour of the broadcasters. If I were a tort lawyer I would be rubbing my hands together with anticipatory glee. You see, poor model reviews passed between consenting…
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I Only Know What I Don’t Read In The Papers – F2A Four

My misquotation of Will Rogers is not meant to be disrespectful – I have always thought him one of the finest humourists that the Americas have produced. But he was long before the era of the internet and the wonderful collection of bad information that it provides. Note that I’m not using this column to…
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Patchy Is As Patchy Does

And no-one is patchier than me… I watched a YouTube post some time ago from a modeller who was making extremely precise masks for spray painting by using his inkjet printer. I believe he was printing on a self-adhesive paper and planned to stick this onto plastic models. He was very concerned about scaling the…
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” Lemme Tell Ya How To Do It “

Or not, as the case may be. I view a great many internet YouTube postings on a variety of topics. Many of them are concerned with making or doing things, including the Little World activities. Many of them are valuable, even if the presenters are not professional speakers – they show techniques actually being done…
