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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…
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Junkers F.13 – Part Four – The Simplest Of Schemes
Some modellers like very complex paint jobs on their models. If they cannot achieve it with the airbrush they resort to decals. And the full-size paint shops are all for this as well. The number of special and commemorative schemes that roll out are staggering. And I hate ’em all. Of course there are some…
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Wait. What?
Putting the Junkers cart before the horse yesterday was one of the dangers of using the WordPress computer program without supervision. I have been writing columns with it for years on a free basis – you poor souls out there pay the bill when you read the ads that pop up as you scan through…
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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 (…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
