Tag: Hobby Boss
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Ural Starter Truck – Part One – Packed To The Gills.
I rarely look at YouTube videos centred around unpacking new equipment. It is a genre of the medium that saddens me – but then I saw so much of it in retail trade that I recognize fan-boy symptoms right away. I used to dread them as I knew that they would fixate upon their purchase…
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Hobby Boss MiG 3 – Part Three – Side by Side
I couldn’t resist bringing the Italeri/Zvezda MiG 3 back from the VVS shelves to compare it to the Hobby Boss version. I also wondered if the extra canopy in the HB box could replace the scratch-built part on the older kit. In the end I decided against this as the fuselages seem somewhat different dimensions.…
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Hobby Boss MiG3 – Part One – The Kiddie Shelf
For very old kiddies… I saw a brilliant series of posts on INCH HIGH GUY recently that dealt with the various iterations of the MiG fighter. He got kits from a number of different makers and compared them as he built the lot. Many were extra-detailed from his own scrap box and scratch materials. They…
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Mi-2T Helicopter – Part Three – Andrusiak Air Field
It turned out nice again, eh? I was very pleased with the result of my Hobby Boss Mi-2t Hoplite helicopter kit. I couldn’t have asked for a better fit on the parts and I’m pleased to say that the masking experiment has resulted in some of the best windows and frame lines so far. The…
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Tupolev Tu-2 – Part Four – A Straight Bat
And a fair wicket. This Tupolev Tu-2 WWII bomber eventually got a NATO designation: ” Bat “. It seems to have been exported all over the place after it was second-line for the VVS. The Communist Chinese got some and there are preserved copies in their air museum – presumably Hobby Boss were able to…
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Tupolev Tu-2 – Part One – Long On The Shelves
This model of the Tupolev TU-2 light bomber by Hobby Boss Has been seen on Perth shelves for a long time. Whether it was ignored because it was seen as too simple – a snap-kit – or too obscure remains to be seen. It is actually a technological gem The kit design breaks the fuselage…
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Finnish Brewster Buffalo – Part One – The Herd Increases
As a child I once had an unbuilt balsa model of a Brewster Buffalo. It was well beyond my skills at the time but the design always intrigued me. Perhaps that is why I have built four of the beasts so far for my 1:72 collection. This one is the Hobby Boss version – a…
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Soviet ZIS-5 – Part Three – Non-Rolling Chassis
You can say what you like about Tamiya paints – I swear by their Dark Iron for nearly all the chassis I make – tank, car, or truck. I’ve been under motor vehicles and I know what colour they are… In this case the ZIS-5 truck ( made by the Ural factory, I surmise )…
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H-34 Choctaw – Part Two – The SMCWA Club Build
Tuesday mornings are sacred round here – that is the morning I get to go to the SMCWA clubrooms and build a scale model. Ignore the fact that I have two other modelling stations – here inside and out in my shed. Ignore the airbrush booth and the assembly bench and the rack of 157…
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H-34 Choctaw – Part One – Third Little Indian
The naming convention for US Army helicopters uses the Indian tribes of the nation – a delightful thing. This is the third helicopter in the collection with a tribal connection. There are more helos in the display cabinet, but they are either civilian or international versions that adopt their own names. So far I only…
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