Tag: spraying
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Heinkel He-111c – Part Five – In My Defence…
I never claimed to be normal. Thus the heading image – my take on masking the airliner to add the black nacelles and nose. The silver finish was exemplary – Mr Color Super-Metallic Stainless Steel – and even in the channels and pits of the horrible surface it looked good. Other modellers would have painted…
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Petlyakov – Pe-2 – Part Three – Plugging Up the Holes
I had no idea when I was building model kits as a youngster that there would be a need to plug up cockpits, bomb bays, wheel wells, and every blessed hole in a fuselage. That was well before spray paint cans and any thought of an airbrush. Plain old manual brushes were the go –…
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Brewster Bermuda – Part Six – How Did They Do It?
How did they spray poison gas from an airplane over troops? Or anthrax spores over cattle? How was it done? This grisly thought occurred as I continued to paint the Bermuda. The idea of chemical and biological warfare was certainly on everyone’s agenda in the 1940’s as by then the military scientists had discovered how to to…
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