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Keep Yer Cap On
Do you remember Andy Capp? For years he and Tony Hancock were my sole mental picture of the English…albeit of different parts of the country. Then I went to the UK and discovered other, stranger creatures. Well, Andy always wore a flat cap…much as I do in the winter here in Australia. I’ve two –…
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Vega PV-2 Harpoon – Part Four – The Carioca Killer
Admire the pictures, Children – they are made with the new focus-stacking technique learned from YouTube. Nearly every part of the 1:72 aircraft in perfect focus . The technique is so simple as to be laughable. I secure the model under constant lighting ( 2 IKEA desk lamps ) and focus upon the closest part.…
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Vega PV-2 Harpoon – Part Three – Underwear
Under where did you want me to spray? I am getting good value out of my Mr. Hobby Procom single-action spray gun – the one I bought with funds raised by selling off unwanted photo gear. The gun is a big chunky thing with just one giant adjusting knob and an equally large finger button.…
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Vega PV-2 Harpoon – Part Two – The Subassemblies
Or, in the case of the PV-2…the sub-hunter assemblies. Because remember that this patrol bomber in the hands of the US Navy and the Brazilian Air Force did sink U-boats. And anything else in the small ship line that it encountered. For an airliner it made a pretty mean warplane. The interior is SMS lacquer…
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Vega PV-2 Harpoon – Part One – The Mistaken Assumption
I am subject to misapprehensions from time to time. They generally don’t result in disasters, but they can mean that I miss out on good things. I can remember several occasions as a young man when I did not read the signals correctly and passed lonely Valentine’s Days. It all worked out perfectly in the…
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Backtracking With The Beagle Boys
The wisest anonymous tip I ever saw on YouTube was an Australian modeller telling us to look at our mistakes just after we make them – but then do something about them right away. Leave them through subsequent stages imagining that they will go away, and you are in for despair and loathing. Real errors…
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Learning Something – Part Three – Well, I’ll Be Darned, Eh?
First question – does leaving the paint to dry overnight affect the ability to remove it with a power wash? Ivan’s good green wing was well dry by this morning. I put a large colour cup on the old trigger gun, set the air pressure to 40 psi, and filled the cup with methylated spirit.…
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Learning Something – Part Two – The Mask Of Mystery
So Ivan’s wax coat was a failure. So be it. But now a different idea. I have made up a set of cardboard masks that can be laid over a model in various fashions. The material is stiff and will not conform to the smaller contours. For the first trial I took two of the…
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Any Day You Learn Something – Part One – Bright Ideas
Is a good day. The something you learn may be of great or small import, but the fact that it is now your possession is wonderful. Today I made use of Ivan Seryy it find out whether or not a scheme for camouflage painting was viable. The idea of being able to make soft-edge masks…
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Bristol Beaufighter – Part Four – EE-U
It is not often I get to build a model of a different real aircraft. Of course the makers of the kits pattern them off real ones that they find in museums – and these can be built from the box. But if you do, you are just building what everyone else who has purchased…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 