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Respect.
I am not sure I’ll ever deserve it, but I have certainly met people who do – and some of them have been in my scale modelling club. I write ” have ” because time rolls on and removes people from time to time. The respect you may have formed for them when they were…
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Airspeed Oxford – Part Four – The Central Flying School
The third partner in the Training Trio. My BCATP airfield: RCAF WET DOG – has struggled on for years with an Anson, a Harvard, and a Crane – all good trainers. Of course there is a Tiger Moth and a Grumman Gosling as well, but up until now the Airspeed Oxford has eluded me. Now…
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Airspeed Oxford – Part Three – The Soothing Hand
In this case the soothing white hand – not a racial thing – just white undercoat. It is in preparation for RCAF yellow – a colour that is thin enough to require several coats before it evens out. The white allows it to show clearly under most illumination. In the case of this all-over scheme,…
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Airspeed Oxford – Part Two – Pink Dot Special
You’ll note the pink dots on the wings and fuselage of the Airspeed Oxford – these are the lesions of Moulder’s Pox. It was a disease that afflicted scale models in the 1950’s and 60’s. It was caused by styrene mixtures that tended to shrink. This was exacerbated by pulling the sprue tree from the…
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Airspeed Oxford – Part One – The Leaky Frog
A recent estate sale brought this creature into my life; Lermontov the leaky frog. He is so named because he is from Russia, is made up of old parts, and is leaking sand all over the photo table. He is an apt analogy for the Novo Airspeed Oxford model. Lermontov cost nothing – the Airspeed…
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The PE Pests
No, I’m not talking about the people down the club who can make perfect PE parts every time and cement them on with no problems. I admire them. I’m talking about the Bohemian types who dream up the extra-thin parts on the PE sheets and expect you to be able to manipulate them into components.…
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We Can Retro Better than You Can
If you are a collector of mid-century modern furniture, or fashions, or cars you can pay a small fortune for junk. It’ll be up to you to repair and maintain it, and make yourself think you’re doing a good thing. For the scale model builder, we can do the same thing, but with a bit…
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How Fast Should You Go?
Is there a ” 40 Kph Men Working ” sign at your modelling club? Is someone always looming up behind you and asking ” Are you done yet? “. Perhaps you are out of synch… Phil Flory nailed it some time ago – and I suspect he has a pretty good handle on most of…
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SERIOUS Modelling
Here in Australia we have Yahoo Serious. He is not an internet server….but he has served us well over the years as a comedy actor. Serious laughter is a Serious matter… In the scale modelling hobby we can also encounter a spectrum of involvement that goes from the Terribly Serious to the Delightfully Comic. I…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 