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Junkers Ju 87 – Part Two – Dry Fit
After learning how to correctly cut parts from sprue trees ( learned last year… ) the next most important thing I’ve discovered is the importance of the dry fit stage. And the more of the kit you can get to hang onto itself in this preliminary exercise, the better idea you’ll have of how to…
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Junkers Ju 87 – Part One – Hoping For A Revellation…
My first ever plastic model kit was by Revell – made when they were located in California. Now that they are a German firm, things may have changed. I see reports from the British modelling press that they are a curate’s egg – some kits fine and some foul. I also see cries of derision…
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The Work-Rounds For Genius Modellers
There is more than one way to skin a cat, but you’d be wise not to tell this to pet owners. However, if you are a scale modeller there are a number of solutions to common problems that appear if you are prepared to think outside the box. Or, in the case of old Airfix…
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The Difference Between Blazing and Blasé…
…Is generally time and experience. The more of these two you rack up the less you writhe on the rack. This applies to marriage and model building. I’ll leave you to deal with the first set of memories, but consider your experiences with your first plastic model kits. You were keen, you were fussy, you…
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Gun Or Brush? That Is The Question
Whether ’tis nobler to load up the airbrush with two drops of paint or grasp a hairy stick and muddle over the part. To paint, perchance to drip. As a young model builder my choice was no choice. if I had paint and a brush, on it went. Enamel paint, never thinned. Brush cleaned out…
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Gloster Meteor – Part Three – Up The Pole, Berkowitz
Up the pole, Berkowitz. The gate guard needs another coat of paint. ” But it’s too early in the morning, Sergeant. And it’s too hot. “ Up the pole, Berkowitz. ” But I get dizzy, Sergeant. And the paint makes my nose itch. And there are flies…” Up the pole, Berkowitz. ” But we just…
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Gloster Meteor – Part Two – The Wrong Road
I would be the first person to admit my mistakes – at least the ones I cannot hide under the rug. Or blame on other people. This kit prompted a mistake. I thought that I was going to make an Israeli Meteor to be displayed in 1956 colours at my air museum at Schmatterim. The…
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Gloster Meteor – Part One – Old Airfix
From the stash of an old modeller – with a few surprises along the way. This kit was in the legacy stash of an old club mate. I purchased it with several others to build in tribute to him, but did not have a fixed project in mind. He had apparently intended it to become…
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Stash Conquering
How to defeat the Box Monster. We all know about the Carpet Monster that eats parts from our model kits before we get a chance to break them. We all have ways of coping with this – mine is crawling about on my hands and knees and swearing. But what do we do when the…
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Strutting Around The Workshop
With my clothes on, I hasten to add… There comes a time in any modeller’s life when they are faced with the difficult decision; do I build a biplane with cabanes and inter-plane struts or do I run amok with a dagger in the mall? I can’t tell you how many times I have faced…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 