Tag: Airfix
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Heinkel HE 111 – Part Three – The Aerodynamic Engine
I do not know enough about the differences between British and German aero engines to be able to debate their good and bad points. Suffice it to say I think the British practice of mounting the Merlin engine upright seems to be a darn sight more sensible than the inverted Daimler Benz of the German…
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Heinkel HE 111 – Part Two – Nothing Looks Like An Airplane…
You can get into a rut in model airplane building. I do planes that are mostly British or American types. Sometimes a Soviet job, or the rare Japanese one. In all these cases they have distinctive national characteristics quite apart from paint jobs or insignia. There are styles of fuselages, wings, and engines. Some are…
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Heinkel HE 111 – Part One – Welcome To The Rafwaffe
Yes, you read that right. Rafwaffe. Specifically 1426 Flight RAF. The unit that took captured and abandoned German equipment and tested it for the RAF. At Duxford and RAF Collyweston. They got one of the Heinkel 111’a that had been downed to a soft landing early in the war over the UK and repaired and…
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Bristol Beaufighter – Part Three – The Principle Of Opposing Forces
Relax. This isn’t a political philosophy book. It’s still about plastic airplanes. The warped Airfix Beaufighter fuselage has been tamed. It took all day to do what might have been accomplished in a half hour, but we were on lockdown and time was elastic. The warp in the fuselage also warped the perception of how…
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Bristol Beaufighter – Part Two – Ce N’est Pas…
Ce n’est pas de plus beau… Oh, it’s a Beaufighter all right, and a marvellously complex moulding design. But someone in India pulled it out of the mould early and hot and it cooled on the bench. So the two halves of the fuselage have taken their own particular set – and the interior floor…
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Bristol Beaufighter – Part One – The Beginning Of A Beautiful Friendship
I’ll just round up the usual suspects… I can’t think why I have not pulled a new Airfix Beaufighter off the shelf at Hobbytech sooner. Goodness knows they have had them for some time – both this version and a later model with a radar…
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Dudded? Or Clumsy?
Starting out on a kit that I bought from someone’s stash, I was gleefully contemplating the colour scheme when I noticed that there was no canopy for the aircraft. Had it been included in the kit and I lost it? Had it been missing and was overlooked at the time? Was I in possession of…
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RCAF Lancaster – Part Five – Subassembly
I think one of the nicest things about the new Airfix kits is the way that they have decided upon the subassembly moulding. In the case of the Lancaster they’ve done something that I have not seen before…but would like to see again. The point of assembly for many aircraft builds that makes me nervous…
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RCAF Lancaster – Part Four – Button Up
The interior detailing on the fuselage was finally done – here’s what it looks like with no additional parts or work: The map is a decal. Pretty neat for no photo-etch. The other thing I commend Airfix for is the strut and former construction that mean the wings are going to go on right. Of…
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RCAF Avro Lancaster – Part Three – It All Starts With Bits
I try to be thrilled with all parts of the kit building I do – from the shopping and acquisition through to the plans, cutting and fitting, painting , and final assembly. But it must be said that there are times when the stages are very small and you don’t seem to progress. The initial…
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