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Potez 540 – Part Five – Not Cartograf
The gradual build-up of the Mister Craft Potez 540 has been a delight until today. The engine nacelles were complex but fun. The fuselage and tail went fine. The undercoat and colour coats went as expected – even masking for the national markings on the wing and fuselage. The assembly of the engines, struts, and…
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Potez 540 – Part Four – IKEA Day
The day I assemble the fuselage from the flat pack with a little hex wrench. I almost seemed like that was going to be the case when I first saw the way the aircraft had been sectioned. But Heller was wise – if the Potez was rectangular in cross section there was no point in…
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Potez 540 – Part Three – Three Days On The Road
And I’m definitely not gonna make it home tonight. Not riding the Potez 540. The heading image is three days later. Not hectic days, mind, but steady use of my evening modelling time. I think we are making progress and I hope it is in a forward direction. The engine nacelles or housings for the…
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Potez 540 – Part Two – The Hatch Of Heller
The moment of truth arrived in my hobby room – I opened the Mister Craft box and saw what I had exchanged money for. I was pleasantly surprised. Heller it was, and Heller is still is. But not as bare or sad as some people would have you think. And not moulded as badly as…
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Potez 540 – Part One – The Roll Of the Dice
When my mother was expecting me, an angel appeared and offered to make me either smart or good looking – her choice. I now begin to suspect which idea appealed to her. The reason I’ve come to this conclusion is I have purchased another Mister Craft kit from Poland. You’ll remember my experiences with other…
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The Bellanca Ball-Ache
I’m being unfair to Bellanca – I could have chosen Beechcraft or Bristol. The alliteration was the thing – a ” B ” aircraft maker was needed. Let’s start out by saying there never was an aircraft called the Ball-Ache. There may have been many that induced the condition, but that is a matter for…
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Federal 2 1/2 Ton – Part Four – A Nervous Time
The Academy kit of this truck has two build options, differing only in a winch and a machine gun mount on the cab roof. I eschewed this and opted for the version associated with the Red Ball Express. There are plenty of stores on the sprue trees and a big open bed in the back.…
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Federal 2 1/2 Ton Part Three – Classy Chassis
The joy of building Academy vehicles is the precise subassemblies that their kit moulding makes possible. The chassis of the Federal is no exception – in fact it is better than the Army ambulance that they put out. I still have the horrors trying to get all the wheels on the pavement at the same…
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Federal 2 1/2 Ton – Part Two – If it’s ALL Green…
Is there any need to paint it? Yes there is. Bare green plastic is just that… you can see a mile away when someone puts a model out for display that hasn’t been painted. That’s fine and dandy if it is a display of production models that lets the customers see what it looks like…
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Federal 2 1/2 Ton – Part One – Mojo To The Fore
This is unquestionably a mojo build for me. I stuffed up my last military vehicle badly and saw this one the next day as a saviour in the armour aisle. I do not intend to be as impatient and casual in its build as I was with the failure. I remember these trucks from a…
The Little World
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