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The Dinner On The Workbench Idea
No, I’m not talking about a plate of stew in the middle of painting a new model. That will not end well. This is a post about prices. We pay varying amounts of money for our models – Some come free and are all the sweeter for that – some cost a lot. Unless we…
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Airfix Boomerang – Part Four – Classy Vintage
Well, if the Airfix 2023 announcements are anything to go by, it is going to be a good year for Vintage Classics. And if this kit is a sample of what will come along I shall buy the entire range. The result at the end of the build has been all I could ask for…
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Airfix Boomerang – Part Three – Jackson’s Art Mask
Well, in for a penny, in for a pound…I tried the Art Spectrum masking fluid from Jackson’s Art Supplies in earnest. The bottle seems a lot like Humbrol Maskol, except slightly thinner. It doesn’t have quite the strong formaldehyde odour of Maskol, but it’s latex, all right. If you do not clean a brush in…
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Airfix Boomerang – Part Two – Furrows And Fillers
How appropriate – I am writing this post on Australia Day 2023 – about a distinctively Australian airplane. And I’m eating a sausage roll and drinking a XXXX. I may go out and wrestle a crocodile later… The Boomerang has distinctively British grooves in it – down the wing roots and in the tail assembly.…
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Airfix Boomerang – Part One – Back Again
The problem with building CAC Boomerangs is they keep on coming back… Airfix have re-issued their CAC CA-13 Boomerang again in the Vintage Classics line and I am absolutely delighted. I’ve had experience building a Tasman Models resin kit of this plane and lived to tell the tale – this one promises to be a…
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A Word About Roden
I shall be polite, and not choose the word that comes first to mind… Roden models are made in Ukraine and that probably qualifies them for admiration and sympathy in today’s world. They have it from me for their plight, but not so much for their products. I have built two – a Pfalz D.IIIA…
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Pfalz D.IIIa – Part Three – The Stag Knight
And so few of us remember ours, eh? The Roden Pfalz D.IIIa is done, and within 4 days of start. It had been the Christmas-New Years hiatus and I hied my atus to the workshop and got busy. It was not such a kit as demanded a great deal of work, but it repaid precision.…
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Pfalz D.IIIa – Part Two – You Only Find Out By Cutting
Scale model building with a new maker’s kits is really like draining an abscess. You never really know what is going to happen till you plunge the knife in. The Rodin Pfalz is actually quite nice, if you can forgive a few inadvertent flash episodes. The fuselage sides came together after being flattened on a…
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Pfalz D.IIIa – Part One – First Time
I had been watching reports of the Roden scale models for some time and had not been able to come to a conclusion – some lauded and some condemned them for poor moulding and impossible parts. A birthday gift meant I could go to the hobby shop and bring back an armload of inexpensive kits…
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Iron And Steel In The Soul
And let us have more of it. The recent big local scale model exhibition had a surprise near our stand – a model steel furnace. It may have been intended as part of a model railway layout, but could equally be a stand-alone display. It was good to look at from all four sides. Built…
The Little World
Close focus on the world of scale models
The Little World 