-
Fairey Fulmar – Part Three – The Dirty Bird
The Mister Craft Fairey Fulmar is proceeding apace. There were so few pieces to assemble that the basic structure went together in a day – and the decision to use solvent-based lacquers meant that the following day saw most of the painting taken care of. So now it is sitting on the jig airing out…
-
Fairey Fulmar Mk I – Part Two – Polish Precision
Those of you who read the reviews of Amodel kits from Ukraina here in the column may have formed the impression that they were clumsy things…and assumed that all the other products of the Eastern European scale moulding industry would be the same. Cheer up – such is not the case. The 1:72nd Fairey Fulmar…
-
Fairey Fulmar Mk I – Part One – The Easter Airplane
I have no idea why the tradition started in our family, but every Easter I got a model airplane kit. Of course there were chocolate bunnies and candy eggs and the fun of dying hard-boiled real eggs, but the big surprise was to hunt around the living room to see what plane was there. This…
-
The Different Modellers
I don’t mean the ones that come to the modelling club wearing fishnet stockings and the basque. That’s only to be expected from some English migrants…Just don’t make eye contact. No, I mean the modellers who elect to do something different with their hobby. Here’s some: a. The person who researches completely obscure equipment that…
-
Fairchild Flying Boxcar – Part Five – All That Gleams
The C-119 Flying Boxcar is ready for deployment. Ol’ 102 she is, and a finer example of the type couldn’t be found. At least not locally. The decision to paint it in 1949 livery was prompted by the fact that there were no stub fins under the vertical stabilizer. That meant no side lightning stripes,…
-
Fairchild Flying Boxcar – Part Four – A Little Dodgy
Actually a little Dodge truck. The box says it is a ” WC-51 Light Truck “. The Italeri moulding is fine – with too much detail for convenient building and a high-boy aspect to it that cannot be right. But as it is cargo for the C-119, it will do nicely. Halfway up the ramp…
-
Fairchild Flying Boxcar – Part Three – The Smear Campaign
My efforts to obtain 1:72 decals from Canada for the C-119 Fairchild Flying Boxcar came to nought – the sets that were made are long out of production. In the event, this is just as well, because they would have necessitated a major reconstruction of the aircraft’s tail to be authentic. I was thrown back…
-
Fairchild Flying Boxcar – Part Two – The Silver Carcase
The Fairchild Flying Boxcar model is proceeding apace, but the pace is slow. This is a deliberate decision as I am using it as my weekly Men’s Shed project. This means I do most of the work on it in the Tuesday 9:00 to 12:30 time slot when I can attend the modelling club. So…
-
Fairchild Flying Boxcar – Part One – The Gift Horse
I am either the best father in the world or the worst one. The decision will not be mine, though I would like to be told so that I can dress appropriately. The chance to be best came when my daughter was an airplane enthusiast a few years back ( she still is…) and took…
-
Hot Glue Gun, Hot Glue Gun…
Ow Ow Ow Ow Ow! Oy! Repeat, while leaping about the workshop doing the traditional dance of the Impatient Modeller. The one who has just touched the glue to see if it is cool yet. Klezma music is good for this. You will be connected to your art – by hot, drooping, strings of…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 