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Macchi MC.200 Saetta – Part Two – A or B?
The usual procedure for my painting of camouflaged aircraft up until now has been: a. Smooth and fill seams and make the basic airframe ready. Prime with a Tamiya spray can. b. Paint the solid underside colour. c. Cover this with tape and occasionally with Maskol. d. Paint the lighter of the top colours. e.…
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Macchi MC.200 Saetta – Part One – The Lawyers Called, Mr Chang.
I can see that there has been a phone call from Italy. Hobby Boss has put out their 1:72 model of the Macchi MC-200 Saetta fighter plane with no reference to ” Macchi ” on the box. It is referred to only as ” Italian ” and ” Saetta “. It’s the same story as…
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Mustard On The Side Of The Plate
The English firm Colman’s made their fortune in mustard. There’s probably a biblical analogy in there somewhere, but the idea that always stuck in my mind was that they really made their fortune on the amount of the product that people left on the side of their plate. It’s strong mustard; we all take too…
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The Longest Day
No, it’s not another D-Day memorial blog. You can wash the black and white stripes off your computer monitor… It’s a post about which day in the build of a model is the easiest – which is the hardest – which the least enjoyable – and which is the one you like the best. As…
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How Many?
I live in Perth, Western Australia – the furthest west that you can get before the world resets and it becomes east again. We’re where the wagon train either stops or gets extremely wet.. Our town has sheds, workshops, hobby rooms, garages, and minor factories all over the place – nearly every back yard has…
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Whadaya Want In The Hobby Shop?
A good question – and one the owners of the places would desperately like to have an accurate answer to – there have been enough hobby shops that have foundered upon not being able to answer it. I often wonder if there was a way to have prevented this. Note: I realise that some shops…
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Ticking Them Off
Ticking them off is ticking me off. I mean the various means for producing camouflage paint schemes on model aircraft. Recently I tried the Silly Putty Snake method for making British A and B aircraft patterns. I had two pots of different brands of silly putty and had researched all the YouTube videos on how…
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Only Shop At the Hobby Stores That Support Your Politics
Are you a hobbyist? Are you passionate about politics? Do you want to harm anyone who disagrees with you? Well, take our simple questionnaire to your regular hobby shop and find out if they are innocent or guilty: Question One. What do you think about Trump? Question Two. What do you think about BREXIT? Question…
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Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke – Part Four – The Coastal Command Wing
I have been delaying publication of the Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke final photos for several reasons; the weather is cold, the paint is slow to dry, and I have been making mistakes. Fortunately, not the sort of errors that are irreversible. The colour scheme of the Bolingbroke is taken directly from the Avia book I mentioned in…
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Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke – Part Three – Are We Hobbyists Or Detectives?
I bought the Avia book about Canadian aircraft of WW2 on a whim at Hylands Bookstore in Melbourne earlier in the year. Hylands is a peripatetic purveyor of printed matter – I have been to 4 of their premises in the CBD of Melbourne over the decades and each time it has been a unique…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 