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Bellanca Pacemaker – Part One – Or Is It?
I have become suspicious about this Dora Wings model of a Bellanca CH-300 now that the box is open and I can see the instructions. They refer to it as a ” Peacemaker “. Was I meant to have a B-36 in the box? Never mind – I’ll build what I found. And what I…
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Shoot Low, Boys.
They’re riding shetlands. The magazines that are published monthly, and bought yearly, all seem to praise extraordinary efforts put into scale kit building. It often involves extraordinary expense as well as inordinate time. The model engineer hobby is the prime example of this; years spent making a workshop – to spend more years making specialized…
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Tupolev ANT-5 – Part Four – Trebly Armed…
On a wing and a half. This model of the Tupolev ANT-5…or 4 – it’s hard to make head or tail of the Soviet numbering system – is a curate’s egg in many respects. The basic kit is buildable, but there are breakable parts that do so and then need to be joined with cement…
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Tupolev ANT-5 – Part Three – Afterthoughts
I pasted that title on because of the tail of this Soviet fighter plane. Sukhoi did a bang-up job of designing a fuselage for this one – the curved lines of he corrugated metal are superb. The fairings for the Rhone engine are massive, but give the front end a really sleek look. I cannot…
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Tupolev ANT-5 – Part Two – The Midget Submarine
It’s not really, but it looks like it – or Sherman from Sherman’s Lagoon. The actual fit of the fuselage halves for this Zvezda model is spot-on – only basic smoothing needed. The sesqui-wing needs some putty help, but even that is pretty minor. It encourages me to think that the rest of the components…
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Tupolev ANT-5 – Part One – Singapore Special
Singapore is a special place for Western Australians – a ” foreign ” Asian city-state…that is not foreign at all. We have come to recognise that it is a Williams Street with humidity. A Northbridge that is safe to walk around. A Canning Vale without the semis. It is also home to some good bargains…
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The Irony Of It All
The use of bright yellow and bright green to attract the eye is a pretty standard practice in construction and road building – vehicles, structures, and people are all decked out accordingly to make sure someone sees them in the confusion of a building site. And the colours are all so bright and solid. Yet…
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Where’s You Bin All My Life?
In de bin? Well, you-all come on outta dere. You needed. Every day we discard; possessions, loved ones, opportunities to become rich quick…and packaging. Lordy, how we do throw away packaging. Because the people who sell us food and clothes and devices package the stuff up way past the point of no-return. Probably because they…
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Aichi Seiran – Part Four – Underwater Bomber
I puzzled a bit at the Tamiya box for this float-plane. No Allied code-name. Normally they give that to let people know what it was called – but this one wasn’t called anything…I suspect the Allies never saw one flying. It was meant to be an attack bomber carried by a very large submarine –…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 