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Gloster Meteor F.1 – Part Four – The Bomb Buster
The Gloster Meteor F.1 is done. And I couldn’t be more pleased with a new kit maker. Dragon Models is a winner in my books – with only a very few slip-ups during the entire process. I shall now look them up in the net to see if there are any more 1:72 items they…
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Gloster Meteor F.1 – Part Three – Just Outta The Paint Shop
Well, it has been a couple of days. We are in spring*, which means we should be getting warmer weather soon. But we also get the tail end showers of winter with the ensuing bad paint conditions. So I have been dodging in and out of the Little Workshop catching my opportunities as they arise;…
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Gloster Meteor F.1 – Part Two – A Grey Week
Actually it has been quite a bright week, weather and all things considered. But it has been a week of grey toil on the Gloster Meteor – and here are the results so far on the Ess Bend shop floor. The heading image is a dry fit of fuselage to wing unit. I need to…
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Gloster Meteor F.1 – Part One – V-1 Vs F.1
When I saw the Dragon model of the Gloster Meteor on the shelf of the little local model specialty shop, I leapt at it. I have a set of decals for an Israeli jet and I thought my luck was in. As it happens, the IAF Meteors were a noticeably later model, with distinctive nacelles…
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Specialise, Generalise, Or Traumatise…
This was my choice when I was entering dental practice – I’d completed undergraduate training and was certified enough to be let out into the community to exercise the results of my training for profit. Or I could re-enter the university circus tent, sweep up after a different set of elephants for another three years,…
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Please Note, Facebook Accounting Department
Guys and gals…I do not do this for money. I do not build model aircraft for money. Nor do I write about them for it, nor take photos of them for it. I do not deny that I find money useful, and would like more of it to play around with, but I realise that…
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Avia S-199 – Part Six – A Messer By Any Other Name
As soon as I saw the photographs of the Avia S-199 in Czechoslovakia and then later in Israel I knew someone was fooling with me. The propellor gave it away. It was a cartoon propellor from a Daffy Duck movie. I mean, who would put as big a prop on a plane like that…? Well…
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Avia S-199 – Part Five – ” Daddy, Why Is that Man Swearing? “
” He’s an aircraft modeller, Dear, and something has gone wrong. ” The something started out going right. I managed to print out a sheet of Magen David emblems on the epson on strips of masking tape. I then transferred the tape to a cutting board and carefully made the roundels and the stars as separate…
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Avia S-199 – Part Four – Ol’ Stripey Tail
I appear to have learned something from my past experiences with Israeli fighter planes. This time I did not attempt decals for the rudder, electing instead to paint the 101 Squadron stripes. They have been very successful, and tempt me further to try to paint the rest of the ID stripes and Magen Davids rather…
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Avia S-199 – Part Three – What Colour Is The Colour Of An Argument?
Answer: Whatever colour you ask about in a modeller’s paint forum. I went to my computer to google someone else’s opinion about the grey/green colour of an S-199 in Israeli service. I encountered scholarly works that deteriorated into name-calling and vulgarity. I did not see any profile pictures of the writers but I can pretty…
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