Tag: injection moulding
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Lockheed RT 33 – Part Two – Do they Drink At Lunch In Prague?
I’m willing to bet they do – it would explain a number of the design decisions that are found in Czech short-run kits. Not that I should complain, but I am slightly puzzled as to why basic components cannot be moulded as parts of the main fuselage or wing sections. They obviously have the skill…
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Messerschmitt Me 109 E – Part Two – Airfix’s Steady Earner
The old saw about selling people bread applies to the scale model business as much as it does to bakeries. If people want bread, you bake bread. Never mind the fact that every other establishment in town also turns out loaves – and put aside your enthusiast’s desire to bake upside-down unicorn croissants…bread sells, and…
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Beechcraft Model 18 – Part Two – Individual Excellence
The new model is going together very quickly – aided by reasonably accurate fit in the disparate sub-assemblies. I use the term disparate, because while these components are well suited in themselves…they all hold a proud independence in their geometry. In simpler terms, they fit, but not to each other. This was a phenomenon noted…
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Miles Magister – Part Two – Square and Solid
Well, I was right about the RS Magister – It is a nice kit. As there is so little to do in making it – though it is by no means a Hobby Boss production – the assembly is not boring. Of course there is the PE to deal with but even that is simple.…
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Savoia Marchetti S.79 Sparviero – Part Five – Deep In The Heart Of…
Not Texas. Deep in the heart of Northern Italy. At the Savoia Marchetti factory cementing together the S.79 bomber and being alternately impressed and horrified at the way it is going. Impressed? Look at the detail of the shock absorber on the tail wheel. Not really terribly visible from the outside, but sturdy enough to…
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Why The Czechs?
Or why the Ukrainians, Poles, or Russians? Why the Chinese? Why has plastic scale model manufacturing become such a big thing in these countries? And why did it move so much from the original base in the USA? Why did the US companies sell up to overseas investors? It cannot be because the population of…
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Northrop Nomad – Part Two – A Sea Of Plastic
I have never been so happy to see a plastic bag full of parts before. Particularly as they are all injection-moulded with nary a resin part in sight. The new Northrop Nomad kit ( also known as the DB8A3N ) is a return to traditional construction. There is evidence of thought throughout the box. In…
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