Tag: Vought
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Vought Crusader F-8 – Part Two – Cockpit Decals
Bless the designer who thought of making decals for the cockpits of 1/72 scale aircraft. I admire the resin parts that people buy for aftermarley – they can be superbly detailed. A worker in 1/48 and larger would certainly get good visual value from a resin seat or control stick. And the PE brass instrument…
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Vought Vindicator – Part Four – The Movie Star
I gotta find it – I gotta find the 1941 Fred McMurray/Errol Flynn movie ” Dive Bomber”. If only to see the real thing in ( fake ) action. Now that the Vought Vindicator is complete and the Yellow Wing Navy is well and truly started I need all the entertainment I can get. Well,…
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Vought Vindicator – Part Three – The Yellow Arrives
I am starting to formulate a style in my model building – in fact a number of styles, depending upon the scale and type of model under construction: a. Large model buildings are done from sketches and photographs with a fair degree of leeway in the design. I stick to simple lines and art deco…
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Vought Vindicator – Part Two – The Czech To Progress
I have written before about Eastern European short-run kits and their peculiarities. The first experience was bad, then good, then bad, then gradually better and better. It is very much a mixed bag of sweet and sours when you build Czech, Pole, or Ukrainian. The Vought Vindicator is actually quite on the sweet side. To…
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Vought Vindicator – Part One – The Yellow Spreads
I’m not going to use the title ” Yellow Peril ” because that opens a whole new can of nematodes – but the Yellow Wing Disease has definitely taken hold in the Little Workshop. The start of it was the free Airfix Brewster Buffalo scored at the plastic modelling club that made up to such…
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