Tag: WW2
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Curtiss SBC-4 – Part One – The Old Photo In The National Geographic
I used to pore over wartime copies of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. I found a trove of them in a school library in the 1960’s and read all I could. I wasn’t after pictures of native girls with bare chests – I wanted colour photos of fighter planes. NG had access to the US Navy and Kodachrome…
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CAC Boomerang – Part Four – Green And White
Readers of this column may be wondering why I build so few Australian aircraft. It is not that I dislike them – it is just that I know so little of them that I fear making errors. I know that other modellers are much more accurate and I respect their judgement. Yet I would not…
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Northrop BT 1 – Part Six – The Arcane Scheme
I occasionally go to our local bottle shop and buy beer or wine. It is a big shop and has hundreds of varieties of booze, and the only way to differentiate before you buy is by the labels. I have given up being a gourmet or a gourmand and have finally come down to being…
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Dewoitine D.520 – Part One – Allo, Allo…
I have passed the Hobby Boss Dewoitine D-520 kit on the hobby shop shelves for a couple of years now with no regrets. I’d built a Morane Saulnier and a Caudron and the prospect of an diminutive French plane was no urgent call. But I’ve recently borrowed one of those profile books of WW2 fighters…
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Fairey Fulmar – Part Four – Sub-Lt. Chondomley-Smythe
” Sir? ” ” Yes, Sub-Lt.? ” ” Sir, why to the Yanks call us chinless wonders? ” ” Jealousy, Chondomley-Smythe…pure jealousy. They look upon our Fairey Fulmars with a horrible envy while they are forced to fly their F6F Hellcats and F4U Corsairs. Now glue your oxygen mask on with this surgical plaster and…
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Chance Vought Corsair – Part One – Familiar Territory
As you’ll have seen from my earlier postings, this kit build is a confidence-building exercise occasioned by a recent failure. It is the second Corsair to get on the deck but this time it will fly. The Hobby Boss presentation is familiar – a clear plastic tray that corrals all the sprues and parts. I…
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Hawker Hurricane Mk II – Part Five – The Newfie
Those of you from the Dominion of Canada will know I speak with affection about Newfoundland – The place where this Hawker Hurricane was based. Specifically at Torbay in 1943 when German U boats were feared. They had successfully sunk ships nearby in the previous year and the RCAF needed to have a quick-response answer.…
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The New Build From A New Maker
This begins a series of posts that deal with building a model from a maker who is new to me – Special Hobby from the Czech Republic. It’s not the first Czech model I’ve tried – I did build two different AZ models recently – but I am desperately curious to see if this is going…
The Little World 