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Lockheed CT-133 Silver Star – Part Three – Star On A Stick
Well, this is a re-run of a number of previously-learned lessons – how to mask, how to hold, how to finish. As I have made the mistakes that lead to wisdom before, I need not make them now. But I will… However, here’s the internal structure that I mentioned in the last post. That’s so…
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Lockheed CT 133 Silver Star – Part Two – You May Have Noticed…
You may have noticed that the box art shown in the first episode refers to a T-33A aircraft – a Shooting Star. Well by the time the RCAF got their Canadian-built variants of this US trainer, it had become the CT-133 Silver Star. There were a few modifications; a different thickness of perspex in the…
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Lockheed CT-133 Silver Star – Part One – The Brand I Trust
Let me start out by disclaiming any business connection with the Italeri company – or with any of their distributors or retailers. I am just a customer – but I am a satisfied customer. I have never had a product from Italeri with which I was unhappy. You may deplore my skills and expertise as…
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Smorgasbuilding
One of those, and one of those, and one of those… And you won’t build that sort again, because they’re icky. And there you are, in the aisle of the local HobbyHell Supastore looking for a small bottle of paint – or a large box of tank. And you see a rack full of packets…
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Mirage F.1C – Part Four – I Must Build More
a. More French aircraft. b. More jet aircraft. c. More Hasegawa aircraft. d. More varied operators. The completion of the Moroccan Mirage F.1C has been a real pleasure – a kit that had few flaws to trap me. Of course I made mistakes but I made them early and easy. And this is the point…
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Mirage F.1C – Part Three – Like Webster’s Dictionary
Or Hope and Crosby…We’re Morocco-bound. Why Morocco? Never been there myself – never expect to visit. Wish them well and hope they do not slide off the edge of Africa into the Atlantic ocean. But their chief advantage to me is their choice of Dassault fighter planes – they fly the Mirage F.1C. They also…
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Mirage F.1C – Part Two –
I am not a naturally suspicious person. I do not see conspiracies in every coup, assassination, or Disney movie. I regularly send money to Nigerian princesses. Yet I suspect every tricycle-geared airplane that they build…they are all tail-sitters just waiting for us to have a moment’s lapse of attention. I regularly weigh and balance planes…
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Mirage F.1C – Part One – Stash Build
And it turned out to be part of someone else’s stash. These things come to you. There’ll be a bring and buy sale at a model exhibition or a swap meet at the local club. If you are told of it in time you can prepare yourself by rummaging in the wife’s purse or the…
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The Serious Modeller
Vs the chronic modeller. The difference is slight – more a case of emotion than skill. The former is a staid and sober citizen, carefully measuring between rivets on their one and only model – which they have been building since 1987. The fuselage of the kit is nearly complete and the serious modeller will…
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Junkers F.13 – Part Five – Flying Iron
Well, the City of Prince George flies again. Never mind the sad wreck in the museum – here she is in pristine glory. And a rare enough bird she is, too. There are few models available in 1:72 of inter-war civil aircraft – if you discount the various boxings of the Douglas DC-3 and the…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 