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Airfix Junkers 87 – Part Five – Partisan
The Junkers 87 used by the Luftwaffe was terrifying enough – but as a captured dive bomber in the hands of Marko and Miloš…Eeeeek. The aircraft was captured by Yugoslav partisans in Feb 1945 when the two German crew landed by mistake at the wrong airfield. It was subsequently flown in battle by the partisans…
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Airfix Junkers 87 – Part Four – By The End Of The 27th
This year I did not holiday on a coast; neither Gold, Rainbow, Iron, or Mosquito variety – stayed home. And built my AIrfix Christmas kit – as a proper person would. You have turkey, Santa, and Airfix – do not try to better a winning combination. By the end of the 27th the kit was…
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Airfix Junkers 87 – Part Three – Boxing Day
If you are wondering what to do on Boxing day and your Christmas kits are sitting there…well, I ask you. As this Stuka was destined to have a dark-coloured scheme, it was a chance to use my black cement. It’s a 50/50 mix between a thin and thick cement. Perfect for parts that need to…
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Airfix Junkers 87 – Part Two – Inside The Office
Approaching an aircraft build with trepidation is always disheartening. But some kits beg it – the Czech short-run ones or the Russian re-pops often have too much inside or nothing at all. We have all seen the pilot figure stuck to a post from one side of the fuselage – or worse; nothing whatsoever under…
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Airfix Junkers 87 – Part One – Relax
It’s a new mould. But don’t relax too far. I looked at the sprue trees and found patches of flash and surprisingly large ejector pins. Fortunately the latter are mostly in areas that are hidden. Still, I don’t trust a couple and will burr them off before trying to join the wings. The kit features…
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Out Of Stock
But always in the catalogue. Sitting there on-line, sneering at you…the kit you want but will never be able to buy. You have no way of knowing whether it is only gone for a week, a month, or a millennium. And you have no indication whether its absence stems from the factory, the wholesaler, the…
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What Did You Make?
Or – if you are still cutting and gluing – what are you making? Is it a little airplane from a kit? A ship? A doll house? A working railway? Good – all you different makers, would you be surprised to realise that you are all making the same thing? What? You are making yourself…
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Hannover CL III A – Part Three – Auferstehung
And not a zombie, either – a good-looking model for the collection. The Hannover CL IIIA was apparently a success. It could function as an observation or ground attack aircraft and a number of them were successful as fighters when newcomers on the Allied side pulled up behind one, thinking it was a single-seater. The…
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Hannover CL III A – Part Two – Tuch der Tränen
If ever you are presented with the prospect of building a WW1 German aircraft, look at the colour call-out carefully. It may have lozenge-pattern cloth used as basic covering, Prepare to tremble. The lozenge-pattern camouflage is going to be difficult – as the previous chap found out when he tried Humbrol enamel on the complex…
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Hannover CL III A – Part One – Zwei Waisenkinder
Orphaned by the demise of a modeller. And left in a sad state. partially-built, partially painted, and partially missing parts. The fortunate thing is that there is enough plastic between the two to recover the loss. Paint removal first – with alcohol and Q-tip scrubbing for the fuselage and a soak in Easy Lift Off…
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