Tag: missing parts
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Fairchild Argus – Part Five – Oh, The Relief…
Every scale model build has One Moment… This one came when the last of the painting was done, the decals were on and sealed. and the time had come to cement on the windscreen. It was missing. Clear parts are my bugbear. I have cracked them, stepped on them, fogged, and lost them. They’ve disappeared…
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The Disappointment
I read a review once in a modelling magazine that was quite scathing about a brand of short-run kit: Merlin. I don’t pay too much attention to this sort of bagging as I have made quite decent aircraft out of kits that other people would avoid. The garage kit may look bad to start with…
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Douglas Skyhawk – Part Two – Grey Ghost
The grey primer stage of the Skyhawk build is very accusatory – it accuses me of great failure in losing that canopy. The rest of the plane is superb. Ah, well, it is ever thus. I have a long history of losing parts – and not all on the concrete floor of the workshop, either.…
The Little World 