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Good Morning, Staff.
Good morning. You may be wondering why I have called you here today. The first thing was to trial the ability of Photoshop to make focus stacking images automatically – a task which it has performed admirably. There are a few errors in the image taken of you but they can be largely overlooked. The…
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Hawker Sea Hawk – Part Three – All Ready, Murphy.
” Well, she’s ready for delivery, Murphy. I’ve rung up Air World and they’ll be sending a low loader to get it. Don’t fold them wings up until it gets here, in case they won’t unfold again. And you might unbolt the rockets for the trip – don’t want ’em getting loose on the highway.…
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Hawker Seahawk – Part Two – Ess Bend Aviation
Now that the contract for refurbishing aircraft has been let out to Ess bend Aviation in Alberta, Stein’s Air World can concentrate upon preparing museum displays rather than spreading an aircraft over an entire shop for years. This is what happens when in-house restoration is undertaken. Here are a couple of pictures of the work…
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Hawker Sea Hawk – Part One – Memories of the 60’s
A casual post on the internet alerted me that my favourite go-to model company had released a 1:72 version of one of my favourite models of the 1960’s: the Hawker Sea Hawk. And this one from Hobby Boss was reported to be more than just a quick-build kid’s kit. Be that as it may, I…
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Airfix Mosquito – Part Four – Thank You, Mike Grant
Mike Grant had been a pioneer where I wished to go and I was fortunate to discover an magazine article he wrote – sponsored by Airfix – that dealt with exactly the aircraft I was working on. The story was illustrated with a lot of good coloured photos and Mike had gone into the scale…
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The Scale Modelling Culture
Or ” How I learned to cut throats on a green plastic mat “. As scale model builders we mess with the ideas of popular culture all the time. The vast majority of the population who have never built anything smaller than an IKEA bookshelf have no idea what closely focusing on a fresh kit…
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Back Yards Were Bigger Back Then…
And so were the manufacturers of scale models who conducted their businesses out of them, it would appear. And we didn’t realise it… I am not going to mention big names here. Revell, Monogram, Aurora, Lindberg, Airfix, Tamiya, etc. Their local representatives can breathe out again and put the axe back on the table –…
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Airfix Mosquito – Part Three – Look Quickly
I suggest that you look quickly at the IAF Mosquito in today’s illustrations – it may be the last time that you will see it in such a clean condition. It is just about to be wheeled out onto the hardstand at Schmattarim Air Base to join the museum of aircraft that have been in…
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AIrfix Mosquito – Part Two – The Lists…
There can be two lists connected with every scale model airplane kit; the list of things that went right and the list of things that went wrong. You’re only in trouble if the lists contain the same items…Here’s the good one for this Airfix Mosquito: It was free. I had special decals saved up for…
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Airfix Mosquito – Part One – The Free Skeeter
Is there any nicer word in the English language than ” free “?* I was attracted to this Airfix model of the Mosquito NF MkII when I saw it on the free kit table of the Model Car Spectacular earlier in the year. If you put in an entry you got a number that was…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 