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Convair 440 – Part Eight – Out Past Where The Buses Run
Those of you who are Kinky Friedman fans will know this phrase. It applies to a lot of the work on the Mach 2 Convair 440. Not the least being the choice to eschew the kit decals – big troublesome designs for an airline I do not know – and to paint the thing as…
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Hold The Weddin’!
As Kinky Friedman would say. You’ll have to wait a bit longer to see the progress on the Convair 440. I’ve got something entirely different to show you today. I would like to introduce Ol’ Gutless. Ol’ Gutless is a gate guard for Stein’s Air World in Wet Dog, Alberta. She originally started life as…
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Convair 440 – Part Seven – Thinking Outside The Box
Getting a kit that is deeply flawed – or undertaking any other modelling task that is doomed to failure from the start – is a wonderful opportunity to put the prop on coarse, turn on the water injection, and shove the throttle past the military stop. You might as well see what the hell happens……
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Convair 440 – Part Six – Methinks They Doth Protest Too Much
Well fresh from the debacle of a failed paint job and the recovery of spirit when the paint job was partially saved, I decided to launch out on a voyage to the New World of Mach 2 kits – I finally hauled the Convair 440 out of the stash and started to work on the…
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Convair 440 – Part Five – Good Customer Service
Those of you who have read the previous episodes of the Convair 440 might have thought me prejudiced about it. I hope not, because I have just had a wonderful example of good business behaviour. One of the propellers of the kit was a short-shot – the plastic did not go out into one blade.…
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Convair 440 – Part Four – When Life Gives You Lemons…
That meme and its associated parodies running through the brain, I’ve been doing a little research on the Mach 2 Convair 440 kit that I bought. It seems that there are a number of variants of it that share the plastic but change the decals, and a number of companies that have produced custom decals…
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Convair 440 – Part Three – She’ll Be Right, Mate…
If ever there was a phrase that captured the spirit of Australia, that is it. Forget Hoges and his shrimp on the barbie ( and they’re prawns down here…)and the Crikey bloke. Pure Hollywood scriptwriting. The real Australian uses ” She’ll be right. ” to cover a multitude of situations and a myriad of sins.…
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Convair 440 – Part Two – How Much For That Busted Box?
When I was engaged in retail trade in cameras and photographic goods we would occasionally receive a shipment of equipment that had a tough passage. External cardboard cartons might have been roughly handled by the shippers and ended up dented or breached. We rarely had evidence of tampering or pilfering, but it was possible. Trucks…
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Convair 440 – Part One – The Visitation
I went to a new hobby shop – Hobby Mania. It was up a flight of stairs and shared premises with an accountant’s office. No-wonder – the accountant has the shop as a personal hobby venture. He must be doing well enough – he had an employee there to show me the room of stock…
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Which Cement Shall I Use To Ruin My Sweater?
I’m glad that I own more than one garment – because I sure as heck own more than one kind of adhesive. I did not realise just how many until I got a kit that is moulded from cheese and determined to try out which would be best to stick it. In many respects it…
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