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Douglas C-47 – Part Two – Honeymoon Express
The plane I’m building has a real history – apart from being a special scheme on a set of aftermarket decals. ” Honeymoon Express ” was the lead ship on a paratroop assault on Nadzab in New Guinea in 1943 in conjunction with an assault on Lae. It is a good point of interest as…
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Douglas C-47 – Part One – The Gooney Bird Again
I built a Canadian Gooney Bird a last year as part of my Air World collection – a Burma Biscuit Bomber that has been preserved in the Canadian museums as a flying tribute. That should have finished my fascination with the Dakota/C-47/Skytrain/ Gooney bird for some time. Not a bit of it. I had collected…
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The Home-Made Decals – Part Two
It is the Ancient Modeller who stoppeth one of three ” Take heed, Sirrah, to what I say Or suffer along with me…” The experiment went ahead as planned with the porous paper, the Golden Syrup ( Australian version of Karo ) and the warm oven: a. Syrup brushed on paper. Soaked right in. Paper…
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The Home-Made Decals…Part One
Get more home-made every day. We are in the midst of a drought of decal paper in Perth. It may have escaped the attention of the major news channels, but I assure you the effects are being felt in the model airplane world. Particularly in my own little one, as I have discovered the joys…
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Brewster Bermuda – Part Eight – A Lovely Surprise
Well, mustard gas is always a surprise anyway, but this experimental Brewster Bermuda adds a stylish note to it. Not sure if I’m proud to have made an experimental Canadian gas plane of it, but the other options weren’t all that much better. The new technique of masking off the greenhouse entirely and temporarily gluing…
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Brewster Bermuda – Part Seven – Ray Stevens…
Ray Stevens once had a big hit song in which he suggested that everything is beautiful in its own way. I take it that Mr. Stevens never saw a Brewster Bermuda half-way through a camouflage job. I’m building it and I rather like the Brewster airplanes but even so I think it’s as ugly as sin.…
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Brewster Bermuda – Part Six – How Did They Do It?
How did they spray poison gas from an airplane over troops? Or anthrax spores over cattle? How was it done? This grisly thought occurred as I continued to paint the Bermuda. The idea of chemical and biological warfare was certainly on everyone’s agenda in the 1940’s as by then the military scientists had discovered how to to…
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Brewster Burmuda – Part Five – The Germ Of An Idea
Or ” Having A Gas Of A Time In Alberta “. I found out what the Bermuda was doing in Suffield. It was airframe number FF 568 from the Brewster factory and it was one of three that were flown up to Canada. One apparently crashed at Dorval in Quebec, but FF 568 got out…
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Brewster Bermuda – Part Four – Well, Why Not
Having decided to convert a perfectly inoffensive Brewster Buccaneer with no purpose in life into a perfectly inoffensive Brewster Bermuda with even less purpose, I am now left with a kit that silently screams for something to call attention to itself Never mind that it has a dual rear machine gun with an armoured shield…that’ll…
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Brewster Buccaneer – Part Three – A Small Change Of Plans, Eh?
I keep telling myself I will not do this, and I keep ignoring myself. The Buccaneer for Special Hobby is about to change hands…into the care of the RCAF at Suffield, Alberta for “special duties “. While my meagre internet resources do not yet say what these duties are, I can guess: Beer runs. Large…
The Little World
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The Little World 