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Oh Ye Of Little Faith
Draw Nigh And Listen Unto Me. Cement it twice and glue it three times. For that is the only way that thou wilt be able to keep the pissy little landing gear legs in their position, or the canopy on firmly. Or indeed the fuselage halves together. Add another layer of cement or glue and…
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Unwrap At Your Peril
Yesterday was Christmas. In the morning I unwrapped my Christmas gift and expressed delight and surprise. Only one of those emotions was genuine. I bought it myself – at my local hobby shop – with my own money. It was be just what I wanted because I knew what I wanted. I have been reimbursed…
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Fiat CR.32 – Part Four – Under A Chinese Sun
The Fiat CR.32 is now ready to fight off the hordes of invading Japanese bombers from the Xú Jichâng airfield. The period of time between the last post and this one was spent painting the wheel sub-assemblies – an easy task – and putting them on the fuselage. This was also an easy task, giving…
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Fiat CR.32 – Part Three – Subassemblies
The call-out and the box art for this Italian/Chinese fighter show sub-assemblies bolted onto the basic structure. The pictures provide a valuable clue that the instructions fail to show; you need to pre-paint the assemblies before you attach them – or you’ll never get clean demarcations. So, emboldened by the Slovakian jigs, I tried a…
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Fiat CR.32 – Part Two – Rosatelli Rocket
I had never heard about Celestino Rosatelli before I read the instruction sheet for this kit, but the story there was enough to send me looking at some of his other designs. They were mostly successful and few of them looked like clunkers, but as with most of the designs of the period I long…
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Fiat CR.32 – Part One – ” Chirri “
Not just the bare bones, but the entire animal! A nationalist Chinese fighter of the 1930’s straight out of the box! And it is one I haven’t built before. How could I refuse the email lure from Metro Hobbies? And it’s an AZ model from the Czech Republic so I know it’ll eventually be good.…
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” I Don’t Like It “
Some people sing a song that goes on for an entire lifetime. Happy, sad, welcoming, or disdainful…it becomes their theme, regimental march, or daemon ear-worm. The main thing you need to do is detach yourself from it all, so that even if the noise continues for a whole lifetime, at least it isn’t your lifetime……
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And a Good Day To You…
Good days and bad days. Scale modelling has them both. How do you increase the number of the former while avoiding the latter? By exercising patience and good sense. Or by winning the Lotto and going stark mad. I cannot advise you which alternative to take, but if you choose the first, consider: A good…
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Fokker Eindecker – Part Three – Stick and String
Well, that was a surprise. I actually enjoyed the process of rigging this little fighter plane. It doesn’t have all the wires it is entitled to, but it has as many as I have the patience to attach. The local hobby shop man didn’t have the Ezy-line that I thought was needed but he did…
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Fokker Eindecker – Part Two – Is This Thing Actually Lego?
You might be tempted to think so as you assemble it – the squareness and the simplicity. Antony Fokker was a genius, no doubt – he could get the most out of the material available to him by seizing upon the simplest of forms. It apparently had a workable synchronising mechanism for the Spandau machine…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 