Tag: Workshop
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Jet Jig Jive
I’ve just used the second of my new Slovakian assembly jigs for a jet. It is the Tornado GR.1 from Italeri – a perfect testing piece for the tool. There are square fuselage panels to rest upon. The geometry is markedly different from the WW2 small jig – though the construction materials are just the…
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Mind The Gap
I started my search for the perfect gap filler to make my plastic models seemingly seamless a long time ago. Well six years or so, anyway. When there was still Stanbridges – Elvis and dinosaurs having passed away. The first tube I bought was from Tamiya, and unlike most of their products, was far from…
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One Tool To Rule Them All
And that is all I intend to borrow from Tolkien. I saw the movies years ago and that was all I needed. But the real topic here is that one tool. You know the one. The one that is there in your tool kit. It’s the one you had when you started model building. The…
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Night Or Day? When To Spray…
The working modeller has a dilemma when it comes to doing their spray painting: Whether it’s better to do so in daylight or under the artificial lights at night. This may sound like a fatuous statement, but consider these factors: a. Most people’s colour vision is more accurate in daylight. It is not biased by…
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In The Mood
What kind of a modeller are you? I don’t mean are you old or young, fat or slim, etc. I mean, are you the sort who breeze into a room, throw a kit open on the table, and start weathering the scupper recovery ports with half your dinner jacket on…or do you need to psyche…
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When In Trouble, Reach For The Foam Board
I found myself in another of those awkward positions. Not as bad as Page 38 of the Kama Sutra, but nearly so…I was under the workbench, in a pretzel shape, trying to decal a fighter plane. The sort of procedure you work yourself up to gradually in an evening of modelling. Before you realise it…
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Revell Brewster Buffalo – Part Two – Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron
I am nothing if not buoyant when it comes to really bad kits. It is the effect of cheerful optimism and iron-bound stupidity. I welcome a challenge…much as I welcome Redback spiders. Considered as an artistic thing, the port wing of the Revell Buffalo is rather elegant. It has a french curve to it. I…
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XF-7 Sky In The Morning…
Modeller take warning. They used to think that shepherds and sailors were the best folk meteorologists – reading the sky and waves for signals of storm or calm. Pooh – that’s nothing. Compared to modellers contemplating airbrush work, the sheep farmers and mariners might just as well be at the bottom of a mine. They…
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Keep Yer Cap On
Do you remember Andy Capp? For years he and Tony Hancock were my sole mental picture of the English…albeit of different parts of the country. Then I went to the UK and discovered other, stranger creatures. Well, Andy always wore a flat cap…much as I do in the winter here in Australia. I’ve two –…
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The Point Of Conception
There has been a great deal of debate on the subject of when life actually starts – medical, legal, and religious authorities have all weighed in with their opinions and formulated laws based upon findings and calculations.There’s been a good deal of doctrine and dogma involved as well – if you think about it, any…
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