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Satisfying The Judges
When you next go to a scale model exhibition see if there is going to be a contest at it – apart from the fights between the customers and the shops. Something that has models on display and judges marking them. Look particularly closely at the table with the prizes on it. They may be…
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Miles Magister – Part Three – Yellow And Silver
The Miles Magister will join my club of planes that look like they can fly right – sweet, sleek craft that give confidence in their aerodynamics and do not depend upon brute force to heave themselves off the ground. Aircraft that swoop, not lurch. I do like some of the cruder planes as well, but…
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Miles Magister – Part Two – Square and Solid
Well, I was right about the RS Magister – It is a nice kit. As there is so little to do in making it – though it is by no means a Hobby Boss production – the assembly is not boring. Of course there is the PE to deal with but even that is simple.…
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Miles Magister – Part One – Cute And Clean
Every so often you need to have a change from heavily-armed warplanes or state-of-the-art jets. You need something small and simple and bright. You need a trainer. Of course the real things were all this and more and perfectly able to kill instructors and students who made mistakes…but that is not what I am intending…
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The Kiss Of Death
If you would like to destroy a commercial firm – to lay waste to its factories and plunge its former employees into miserable poverty, you must follow this simple procedure: Buy one of the products that they make. Try it and find that it is excellent. Become proficient in its use. Expect that you’ll be…
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When You’re On To A Good Thing…
Stick to it. A slogan from old Australian insecticide advertisement. We all thought it was a good idea. But what if we found a better thing? What was the slogan for that? I am minded of this by a discovery of a fresh decal setting agent in my local hobby shop. Currently I am using…
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Vought Kingfisher – Part Four – Neutrality Patrol
And armed with a couple of 100 pound bombs to enforce it. I cannot decide whether the Kingfisher as a land plane is gainly or ungainly compared to the floatplane version. The gear is not too spindly but difficult enough to assemble. It must have been quite a drag for the plane – otherwise quite…
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Vought Kingfisher – Part Three – Clean
My friend Warren and I have often remarked to each other that an airplane that looks good, flies good. That isn’t to say that the rule cannot be violated. The Brewster Buccaneer/Bemuda looked well but was so underpowered as to be a menace. Ditto a number of Italian aircraft. The same might be true of…
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Vought Kingfisher – Part Two – The Inside Job
Well, if you’re gonna be inside for weeks, you might as well do airplane interiors. In the case of some of the short-run Czech kits, just a few hours can seem like weeks. But sometimes you can be fooled. When I saw this Kingfisher’s insides I could see all the Czech troubles beginning again; no…
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Vought Kingfisher – Part One – Amos And Andy
An’ if you don’t keep on reading , you gonna get a nasty letter from de Kingfish…an a phone call too. Those of you old enough to know what that was all about will smile. The younger readers will not. But some of them never smile anyway. Movin’ right along, the AZ model of the…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 