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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…
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Bristol Beaufighter – Part Three – The Principle Of Opposing Forces
Relax. This isn’t a political philosophy book. It’s still about plastic airplanes. The warped Airfix Beaufighter fuselage has been tamed. It took all day to do what might have been accomplished in a half hour, but we were on lockdown and time was elastic. The warp in the fuselage also warped the perception of how…
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Bristol Beaufighter – Part Two – Ce N’est Pas…
Ce n’est pas de plus beau… Oh, it’s a Beaufighter all right, and a marvellously complex moulding design. But someone in India pulled it out of the mould early and hot and it cooled on the bench. So the two halves of the fuselage have taken their own particular set – and the interior floor…
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Bristol Beaufighter – Part One – The Beginning Of A Beautiful Friendship
I’ll just round up the usual suspects… I can’t think why I have not pulled a new Airfix Beaufighter off the shelf at Hobbytech sooner. Goodness knows they have had them for some time – both this version and a later model with a radar…
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The Display Trays
The first batch of display trays has come out well. You remember I wrote about the breakages inherent with moving modes about a club showroom during maintenance. Well these trays are designed to reduce this for my models. They are convenient digital paper sizes; A3+, A3, A4, and 5 x 7. Did experiment with the…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 