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Consolidated Liberator B.VI – Part Three – Good Idea – Bad Idea
I’m not the person in the factory who designs the planes, okay? I’m just the one at the end of the line who glues ’em together. So it’s not my fault. The Liberator is a heavy bomber – in all senses of the word. It needs to be well-built to survive. So does the model.…
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Consolidated Liberator B.VI – Part Two – The Green Crew
And green they are – if not in experience, then at least around the gills at that horrible chromate colour in the aft fuselage. The cockpit is proper FS cockpit green for the Skipper and the co-pilot but everyone else has to work in the cheap section of the plane, and the cheap sections are…
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Good Morning, Walter – Part Six – Garbage Night In Canada
The pictures you see today, Walter, are of a Dinky Toy Bedford dust cart…the British word for garbage truck. The model is one I picked up in England on a holiday in 1995. I’m the sort of person who shops on my holidays and not for tourist souvenirs, either. No postcards or tea towels for…
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Consolidated Liberator B.VI – Part One – Swappies
The swap has been done – Paddy – a gentleman who read my advertisement on Gumtree – called and we have exchanged a Revell flying boat kit for an Airfix bomber kit. We both seem delighted with the deal and I will devote this kit to my workshop after the Boeing Fortress Mk III is…
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Rain, Rain, Went Away
And the humidity dropped and the sun came out. Shows you that sacrificing virgins really works, eh?* Having secured the Mandate Of Heaven…or at least the mandate of the Meteorological Department, I mixed up 50% Supercheap clear acrylic lacquer and 50% Mr. Color Levelling Thinner and started spraying. The mixing was done in a large…
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Rain, Rain, Go Away
Come again after I have sprayed the clear lacquer. I have been glaring at the sky all day for the temerity it has shown in clouding over and raining. This is not convenient, and I demand that it stop. If not, there will be trouble. Actually, I have been avoiding trouble all day. The seven…
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” Modeller’s Other Interests “
The Model Car Spectacular could have been exclusive. They might have barred the door to anyone who did not know the secret password or who could not provide proof that they have been accepted by a standards committee. They could have…and I have read of other modelling societies that behave very much like this. But…
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The Heavy Brigade
I find that I am impressed more by model trucks than by model cars. This is not to denigrate the efforts of the customisers and hot rodders, but the realism of the model trucks is what grips me. I’m by no means an expert on heavy haulage, but I can recognise the things from my…
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The Courage Of The 1:64th Customiser
The great days of the hot rod and custom car were…ummm…well, actually they were yesterdayand went all the way back to the 1940’s. They’ve been held over for the present and will be still continuing for the future. No-one manages to tell the customisers that they can’t do anything so they just go ahead and…
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Batch Processing*
I have spent the last three days batch processing US Army fighters, attack planes, and bombers. It started as a whim, became an experiment, and is looking to be a darned good technique for the future. It started with an idea – in my case these may be vast ideas or half-vast ideas, but you…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 