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Junkers F.13 – Part Two – Twenties Elegance
For 5 bucks a throw. That was the price of a joy ride on the City Of Prince George – the Junkers float plane that was anchored near that town in the 30’s. Takla Landing, I believe. it had a civic christening and everything as they probably hoped to make a regular passenger service with…
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Junkers F.13 – Part Three – A Tail Of A City
The original tail of the F.13 is a beauty – looks like a bird’s plumage made in tin…very reminiscent of a WW1 design. But when the City Of Prince George was delivered it had a very much more modern and conventional fin with a balanced rudder. Fortunately this sort of model was also made by…
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Junkers F.13 -Part One – Corrugated Iron
Corrugated aluminium, actually. Hugo Junkers’ favourite material. He built a lot of things out of it – I suspect that it featured in water heaters, aircraft, and possibly underwear. The twenties roared in Dessau… This example of a Junkers all-metal airliner caught my eye on the Revell shelf. Then research showed it to be a…
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Wenn Ist Genug?
A question for all of us – but in this case for the model builder who is puttying up their kit. When do you stop? a. When all the seam lines are full. b. When you run out of putty. c. When you have lost the will to live. If ( b. ) or (…
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Stash MiG – Part Three – A New Finish
On an old article. The Hasegawa MiG 21 is finished according to the instruction sheet. It could not be supplemented all that much with the net as there were few pictures of the originals before they got blown up. But the model is an effective sketch in strong colours. The choice of duck egg green,…
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Stash MiG – Part Two – The Brown Article
I am always a little chary of Hasegawa plastic. it is quite a bit more brittle than that used by the other makers like Airfix or the Czech firms. I appreciate the fact that it can be drawn to finer points, but I dread cutting things off the sprue trees for fear of crazing. The…
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Stash MiG – Part One – Hasegawa Humour
I title this build as such because I am starting to see the way the minds work in Shizuoka City and it is more devious than you’d think. If you were going to bring out a 1:72 model of a MiG 21 – dear old Cold Warrior – what schemes and equipments would you put…
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In The Mood
What kind of a modeller are you? I don’t mean are you old or young, fat or slim, etc. I mean, are you the sort who breeze into a room, throw a kit open on the table, and start weathering the scupper recovery ports with half your dinner jacket on…or do you need to psyche…
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The Torture Rack
No, this isn’t a Hammer film. I’m talking about the paint racks down at the hobby shop. Horror in 10 ml bottles. The covid year and the shutdown of paint manufacture and shipping has certainly thinned out the racks. I hope it has not been too hard on the finances of the shopkeepers, and that…
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Cougar F9F-8P – Part Three – Despite Sword
I’m being mean. Really this has been a very good kit to build. Minimal trimming, minimal filling. Fit everywhere. Just the minefield of the instruction sheets. It is a warning for the future, however, not to build anything straight out of the box and straight off the instructions. Get a third-party reference and keep it…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 