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Am I A Modeller?
Or a Tetris player? This thought occurred as I was shifting cabinets and restringing electric lights in my workshop. There was no real need to do so – the space produced perfectly good scale models prior to this. But, like a woman moving a piano about the living room, I just could not stop myself.…
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People Know More Things Than You Know
But sometimes they don’t show. I mentioned a small discovery I’d made in the art store to another club member and the discussion turned to silicone moulding and investment casting. I’d done a lot as a student and practitioner and it appears that the other chap has done nearly as much as a modeller. I…
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I Plan To Ask For Asylum
In the Airfix factory. I know what my priorities are, and once I escape my enemies I will need amusement. 45 gallons of glue and the contents of the warehouse should about do it. Other fugitive world leaders are going to try to be banged up in Biarritz or Bermuda, but I leave them to…
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RWD 5bis – Part Three – Bon Dia
Or Dzień Dobry, if you are just starting out. Because this little 450Kg light plane flew from Warsaw to Brazil. Not in one leap, nor in one day, but it started and finished a winner. For a long time the lightest aircraft to cross the Atlantic. The model is also a winner, and will take…
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RWD 5bis – Part Two – The Solo Monoplane
Whenever you see the word ” monoplane ” you know you are looking at a period design. Because there were other choices – biplanes, triplanes, sesquiplanes, etc. These still exist today, but only in oddity or X-plane form. The big feature of this little airplane is the fuel tank – sandwiched into the tiny interior…
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Vickers Viscount – Part Four – Smooth Success
My internet enquiries have failed to turn up a list of names given to the Vickers Viscount aircraft flown by Trans Canada Airlines and then by Air Canada – just a corporate change. However they were titled, they seem to have been quite a success on the Northern American routes – passengers noting the smooth…
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Vickers Viscount – Part Three – The Picture of Dorian Grey
All beautiful and serene on the stand…but up in the attic… Under three layers of masking tape and two vinyl gloves… If you can’t stand horror, do not start airbrushing your models. At some stage of the game it will all start to look like a Hammer film. You must screw your courage to the…
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Vickers Viscount – Part Two – Dry Fit Morning
When a kit has 18 parts, you do not need to spend much time building… One morning at the club, with time out for coffee and a slice of cake ( We celebrate birthdays in the correct style…) was all that was needed to assemble the major components of the Viscount. The surface of the…
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RWD 5bis – Part One – The Dollar Flier
I have no idea where the original owner of this kit obtained it. Like as not, it was sent to the UK during the Warsaw pact era as a foreign-currency earner and was probably sold quite cheaply. I obtained it for a dollar – rough cardboard box and all. I have had a number of…
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The Odd Model
Occasionally you encounter a scale model kit that has as its primary characteristic…oddity. It may be a remarkable rendition, well-moulded, with good instructions and a decent decal sheet, but the basic thing is so strange as to make you, and most of the buying public, shy away. It is the kit that sits on the…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 