Tag: old models
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Is Your Modelling A Spiritual Experience?

Do you get out enough? Is your diet adequate? It seems these days that every thing is a spiritual experience – and that can be a damned blessing…You may just fancy a walk through the park – some people would have you commune with nature and a deity until you need to sit down. It…
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Could You Deliberately Retro-Build?

I’ve been looking at a website that refers to itself as Dem Brudders; it deals with reproduction and re-issued kits. A number of small makers have ended up with moulds from major American firms; Revell, AMT, Aurora, Monogram, etc. The smaller speciality moulders have re-issued some of the classics that were favourites during the 50’s…
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Lockheed F80C Shooting Star – Part One – When Men Were Men…

And boys were boys…and kit manufacturers were not afraid to put silver colour into the plastic models. This old Airfix Shooting Star was in the $ 10 rack at the Sandown Park model show and as it was complete, I couldn’t resist. Even if it did not strike my main chord as a jet ,…
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The Oulde Moulde

Or ” How I Learned To Overcome Despair “. It is just as well that I do most ob my building these days in 1:72 or 1:76. If I chose larger scales I would inevitably run up against a plastic kit that had been manufactured in 1823 and then my level of frustration and angst…
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Ye Olde Kitte

I went to the swap-meet section of the plastic modelling exhibition a little while ago and looked around. I do that – surreptitious spying is one of those hobbies that you can do with little initial outlay – Just a black cloak and broad – brimmed hat. The dark sunglasses and anarchist’s bomb are just…
