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Hawker Tempest V – Part Three – The Buster Built
Five cold and wet days in Perth saw the roses in the front garden blown down, the cat reduced to tears, and the Hawker Tempest V completed. It started out as a vehicle for experiment and in the end has proven its worth. The thing is garish, and deliberately so. After WW2 the Tempest was…
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Hawker Tempest – Part Two – It Might Just As Well…
It might just as well be a Buster…and it might just as well be a Hobby Boss kit rather than an Academy product. The building experience has been just as rapid. I washed the sprue trees for this Tempest at about 12:30 – the basic airframe enclosing a painted cockpit was ready for the photo…
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Hawker Tempest V – Part One – The Elegant Buster
Fired with enthusiasm for a new technique, I set out in quest of a Buster – a kit cheap enough to act as sacrificial styrene so that I could see in 3D what I had just ben trying on scraps of wood. The trip to Hobbytech is always fun, but it is always anguishing as…
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Good To Go
One of the favourite expressions of Phil Flory on his vlog shows. I like it as it is a comfortable thing to hear – at least something has succeeded. The latest model may be a festering mass of foam and fingerprints but by the time it has hardened and you’ve gotten your fingers unstuck from…
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Beechcraft Model 18 – Part Four – Spirit Of Lodgepole
CF-ACL is ready for service. The Spirit of Lodgepole is named after a small town in the Pembina that serves the oil industry and was once the main service town for the Brazeau Dam project. It had an RCMP post, a hotel, a school, and a general store, as well as repair shops for the…
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Beechcraft Model 18 – Part Three – A Pleasant Surprise
Remember I was worried about the plastic surface of the PM Models Beechcraft Model 18…worried that it was too rough to take a good coat of paint? Well, my worries were laid to rest over the last two days. GSI Creos to the rescue yet again. I employ their paints and finishes whenever I can…
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Beechcraft Model 18 – Part Two – Individual Excellence
The new model is going together very quickly – aided by reasonably accurate fit in the disparate sub-assemblies. I use the term disparate, because while these components are well suited in themselves…they all hold a proud independence in their geometry. In simpler terms, they fit, but not to each other. This was a phenomenon noted…
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Beechcraft Model 18 – Part One – The Promising Twin
I was ambushed by this kit through an email from a Melbourne hobby shop. They send out regular lists of new arrivals and this was in the same order as the Hawker Sea Fury. It also came with a companion Beech 18 – a USAAF AT-11. The cost of this kit is $19 and the…
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Every Shop’s A Hobby Shop
And so are a good many unattended rubbish piles as well…wherever a modeller casts an eye there are modelling materials in abundance. Unless you work exclusively in Argyle diamonds and platinum bars, you can find what you need frugally. Note: This does not apply to modelling fairs or specialty shops. The price of the aftermarket…
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Heinkel He 111 – Part Seven – RAFwaffe
The Heinkel He 111 is done and I am very pleased. It has already visited RCAF WET DOG and been photographed. She’s got no guns or bombs aboard, but three RAF test crewmembers are buttoned up in there – as period photos show. Presumably the RAF A/B upper scheme and bright trainer yellow undersides would…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 