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US Navy Carrier Deck – Part One – Building The Stage
This kit was a stash buy – Otherwise I would never have contemplated getting one. But I can readily see the usefulness – particularly for a small-scale photographer. I am hoping there will be enough surface area covered by this kit to let me take usable shots. And it will be a matter of a…
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Watching For The Delivery
Or, not every on-line transaction is seamless. The order for the little die-cast motor cars was made after careful consideration – I was going to need specific years and types to enhance my 2025 exhibition layout. Good sense would gather the elements needed now while they are still available. The net. A shop in South…
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Koolhoven Fk 58 – Part Four – Quick Change Artist
Sharp-eyed readers will notice something unusual about this small Dutch fighter of 1939. It is undressing… Or rather, it is caught in between one set of colours and another. The real planes were delivered to the French air force from the Rotterdam plant of Koolhoven just prior to war with the diplomatic ruse of painting…
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Koolhoven Fk 58 – Part Three – When Disaster Strikes
Don’t roll over – Strike back. Firstly, don’t panic. Nothing that you can do to a plastic model kit will kill anyone or bankrupt you. You can lay the worst result down in the rubbish bin, walk away from it, and go with new knowledge that could not be got any other way. It’s like…
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Koolhoven Fk 58 – Part Two – Ease Of Construction
Whenever you make a scale model kit, someone is going to be lazy. It’ll either be the designer or you. In the case of the Azur Koolhoven Fk 58 the designer has done the hard millimetres so I can cruise along. The cockpit pan holding all the detail parts can be inserted after the fuselage…
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Koolhoven Fk 58 – Part One – One Of The Few
Not the RAF Few – the Dutch few – few made and few supplied. An export order from France. This Azur kit has fallen into my eager hands through a stash sale and is everything that the proper Czech short-run kit should be; obscure, and composed of styrene plastic, acetate, brass and polyester resin. The…
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Times Is Hard And Prices Is Goin’ Up
And that includes all the things we need for our hobby. Except the things that are very, very, cheap – like double-action air brushes. Say what? These double action airbrushes are cheaper than a bottle of MR wine. Our club president sourced them and put them in our supplies display for under $ 22 AUD.…
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It All Tasted Like Chicken Stew
Even if it hissed and rattled. Boy Scout cooking was adventurous if nothing else. Like bush tucker and hobo stew, nearly everything could be put in a pot and boiled. It all came out tasting the same. A wise Scout let someone else try it first. I have been looking at a nest of bottles…
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I Can Quit Any Time I Want
But building model airplanes is a cultural activity. And good for the economy. And, and, and… Don’t go in there; that’s the stash room. If you open the door the sealed atmosphere will be contaminated. Where was I all day? In my workshop or at the club, of course. Clubs, actually. Uh, workshops, as well,…
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The Home Printer
A guide for the scale modeller. I have long come to grips with the business of home printing. It started in the dear old darkroom days of film photography and locked the family out of the bathroom/darkroom many a night. Now we are digital, they can get in at any time, and I just sit…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 