Tag: Hobby Boss
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Republic P-47 – Part Four – Value For Money

It’s not cool to be cheap. Every commercial website or advertisement makes it clear to you that you only qualify for the admiration of the world if you spend money. The more you spend, the better you are regarded. This is a wonderful success on the part of the advertising culture – it used to…
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Republic P-47 – Part Two – Is This A Thing?

Well, the insides of the Hobby Boss P-47 kit were just as good as I expected – with the top-and-bottom fuselage construction and the crisp mouldings. The sprue trees were well-planned, and even if I do not use the wing tanks, I will have them for a future build. Basic fuselage has a very peculiar radio…
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Republic P-47 – Part One – The Gangster Connection

I try to find a connection for my models – and this one is going to tie back to my father and a childhood friend of his – Hubert Zemke. They were kids in Missoula, Montana at a time when a German name and a German family brought insular righteousness down on you. So I…
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The Small Encouragement – F2A Five

The people who have been reading about my Anson Encounter may have formed the opinion that it was a difficult time. That it may have been driving me to blasphemy, murder, or federal politics. Rest assured, while I have no problem with the first two, I would never stoop to the last. But there was…
