Tag: Douglas
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Looks And History
This so often devolves into ” or ” rather than ” and “. Aircraft are designed by people with different senses of aesthetics. Add to this the different operational requirements, purchasing wishes, and actual manufacturing ability, and you can see why there have been so many flying duds. In some cases the crash of the…
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Douglas Skyray F4D – Part One – Unloved Tamiya
Don’t raise your eyebrows and make that noise – this Tamiya kit was half the price of other 1/72 models from the same maker in their Warbirds range. That tells me that it is not a big seller – rather like the Japanese submarine seaplane in the same line. People concentrate on the famous fighters…
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Douglas RB-66B – Part Three – Knuckle Down
And buckle down and do it, do it, do it… Roger Miller was right – you just have to make the cockpit eventually. This was not as bad as some – the amount of detail was enough to populate the space without demanding excess bending and fiddling. The basic grey could be done with exactitude…
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Douglas RB-66B – Part Two – Postponing The Office Work
Every instruction sheet for a model airplane seems to commence with work on the cockpit. This may be a simple as an old Airfix pilot-on-a-shelf to the most complex brass and resin aftermarket kit. I sort of like doing this are and sort of don’t. So I look around for a way of postponing the…
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Douglas RB-66B – Part One – The Shelf Queen
Some kits fly out the door of the hobby shop as soon as they arrive. Some stay until the sales. Some stay until the owner dies and the executors hacksaw the door open. The reasons for this can be many – the kit is horrible – the kit is so obscure than no living being…
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Douglas Boston MkIII – Part Four – AK Air
I am hoarding my bottles of AK Air colours for the most important of my Allied builds. This is a foolish mentality, as the paints are still sold by the larger hobby shops in the eastern states…however I am being frugal these days and rationing myself. The business of covering a black-based model is, in…
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Douglas Boston MkIII – Part Three – Black Bottom Baby
And not only black bottomed, but black based as well. I decided that I would be thorough with the Boston. Black basing for the upper structure – though the under surface would be night black and would cancel out any basing. And AK Air real colours for the upper. They spray so well. The black…
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Douglas Boston MkIII – Part Two – The Multi-kit
I remember the AMT model car kits of the 1960’s with fondness – particularly the 3-in-1 kits that allowed you to build a stock vehicle, a hot rod, or a custom car. I never met anyone who ever built a stock model… The kits seemed to give a lot more value than the dedicated one-car…
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Douglas DC-3 – Part One – The C-47
‘Well, duh. Of course it’s a C-47, because it is a Douglas DC-3. And It’s a DC-3 because it’s a C-47. And it’s a Vietnam-era gunship in this Airfix kit courtesy of four Air Force figures and a cargo floor that sports a number of mini-Gatling guns on stands. I’m afraid it holds little place…
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Douglas C-47 – Part Two – Honeymoon Express
The plane I’m building has a real history – apart from being a special scheme on a set of aftermarket decals. ” Honeymoon Express ” was the lead ship on a paratroop assault on Nadzab in New Guinea in 1943 in conjunction with an assault on Lae. It is a good point of interest as…
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