Tag: fit
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Fokker D.XXI – Part Two – Dutch Canals
And a surprise – as the rest of this MPM kit fit together superbly. The gaps either side of the wing fillet were the only areas on this fighter that needed a filling. Fully deep, but narrow, possible to bridge with Vallejo acrylic putty. It dries quickly enough not to be an impediment to the…
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Fairchild Argus – Part Three – Outside
There are a lot more pictures of the exteriors of WW1 and WW2 aircraft because outside is where they kept the sunlight. The films were a lot less sensitive than modern day equivalents. At this stage of the build, KP have encouraged me greatly – the fuselage halves went together with no gaps whatsoever and…
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MiG 15 Bis – Part Three – Tight And Dry
A good thing in scale model kits and row boats. Not as desirable in schoolteachers or bank managers. This Eduard kit has classic tab-and-slot fitting for the wings and peg-in-hole for the tailplanes. In both cases the fit eas very firm – so much so that a little sanding was needed to get the parts…
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Lockheed S-3A Viking – Part Two – Cut And Glue
And really – that is all there was to it for the day. Some jobs are too hard and some too easy. The Hasegawa Viking fell into the space between these two extremes, and I am not complaining one little bit. When surfaces fit without fettling, when there is enough space for the nose weight,…
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Chance Vought Cutlass- Part Two – Fit
Whether it is dry or wet, the fit of a kit is the factor that most determines our satisfaction. Or to put it succinctly – it either will or it won’t. My praise to the Fujimi people for this one – it did. Not all their offerings in the past have, but here we have…
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Shinden – Part Two – Future Fighter
I am immensely impressed by this 1:48 scale Hasegawa model. It seems to have everything you’d want in a different adventure. The plastic is Hasegawa – brittle – and that frightens you when you imagine the amount of sanding that will be required…but then the parts dry-snap into each other and there is really no…
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Vultee Vanguard – Part Four – Mind The Gap
Fitting an eastern European model together is like opening Forrest Gump – you can never tell whether you have a soft centre or not. In the best kits the parts fit, and in the rest they nearly fit. You are fortunate if the gaps are symmetrical and the surfaces parallel. Plastic strip and sheet can…
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De Havilland DH2 – Part Two – Shit Muckeldy Dun
You rarely see that shade on paint racks these days. There are plenty of colours that qualify, but they tend to have kinder names. The Spanish make a small fortune in tiny squeeze bottles of them. They invent names that suggest you need them for your model – in reality you just need olive green…
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SNCAN Martinet – Part Two – Pre-Armed
I am never quite sure whether I want the good news or the bad news first – but in any case I want to be warned what is coming. In the case of the Martinet I looked up another modeller’s build of the same kit and learned that Czech Sneeze had made a slight error…
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Grigorovich IP-1 – Part Three – Close Enough For Jazzski
And there I was, getting along so very well…and then winter set in. I knew it was winter because the snow started drifting into the gaps between the wing roots and the fuselage on this Avis model. I was delighted, as it obscured the giant trenches that had appeared. But come spring, the ruse would…
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