Posts by Leigh Edmonds
The Curator’s Choice 041 – Messerschmitts
Messerschmitts Messerschmitt Bf109G-6 – Messerschmitt Me163B – Messerschmitt Me262A-1 When people think about the aircraft that fought in World War Two what is one of the first names that comes to mind? Messerschmitt, of course! That company designed and built the most famous German fighter of the war, the Bf109, the extraordinary Me163 rocket fighter…
Read MoreThe Interesting Modelling Company Made Me Write This
(December 2021) It is Christmas Day 2021 and I am led to reflect that it is now precisely sixty-three years since I got my first scale model kit, the Airfix 1/72 Hawker Hurricane IVRP. It was a Christmas present from my patents which they had probably picked up without much consideration in the local newsagency.…
Read MoreSud Ouest So30 Bretagne in 1/144 by F-Rsin
When I first came across the F-Rsin company they were a little business that made respectable full resin 1/144 kits of obscure airliners. These days they offer also a range of injection moulded airliner kits and some airliner decals. Their injection moulded kits look as though they have come from the Mach 2 moulding machine…
Read MoreAdditions to the Museum’s Collection – 041, 4 December 2022
Additions to the Public Galleries Airbus A.330-200 (TAM) in 1/144 by Revell Airbus A.330-300 (Sabena) in 1/144 by Revell Airbus A.340-300 (Singapore International) in 1/144 by Revell Boeing 747-300 (Ansett International) in 1/144 by Kepuyuan Boeing 767-400ER in 1/144 by Revell McDonnell MD-11 in 1/144 by Micro-Mir Stinson OY-2 in 1/72 by…
Read MoreStinson OY-2 in 1/72 by AZmodel
It started like this. I was out in my shed fondling some of the kits in my Treasure when I came across a box that caught my attention. It is not one of the world’s great masterpieces of box art but it shows a light aeroplane flying over a wartime scene, bearing the markings of…
Read MoreDouglas A2D in 1/72 by Mach 2
The Douglas XA2D looks a lot like the earlier piston engined Douglas AD Skyraider and was supposed to be an attack fighter to fly off the US Navy’s escort carriers. These carriers were too small for the new generation of pure jet aircraft so a turboprop engine was ordered instead. It actually comprised two jet…
Read MoreModels for December 2022
Here is the link to my post over at Leigh Edmonds Little Box of Stuff with photos of models, old and new, that I showed at the recent Modellers of Ballarat meeting.
Read MoreBernard 74 in 1/72 by Adrien Roy
On the basis of a couple of rather unfortunate French bombers made during the interwar period all French aeroplanes made during that period have been dubbed ‘ugly’ by the great unwashed. What would then know? Not all French aeroplanes are Amiot 143s, Potez 540s or even Farman 220s. And even then they aren’t that bad…
Read MoreIn the Box
What to do with models after they’ve been on the bench (April 2021) ‘On The Bench’ is the oldest and most enjoyable – for me – scale modelling podcasts. I enjoy the chat between other podcasts out there but I identify with the way in which the three Australians banter seems to me to convey…
Read MoreTop Ten Tools
that I can’t model without (April 2021) When you listen to or watch any of the modelling podcasts or live streams one of the questions that comes up fairly often is about tools. ‘What is your favourite tool’ or ‘what tools do you recommend for a starting modeller’, that sort of thing. I hadn’t really…
Read MoreThe Curator’s Choice 040 – The final generation piston airliners
The final generation piston airliners Boeing 377 Stratocruiser – Lockheed L1049G Super Constellation – SNCASE Armagnac I think there’s something sad about the final generation of piston engined airliers. For the most part they were the culmination of several decades spent working our what was the best way to design and build a large commercial…
Read MoreVought XF5U in 1/72 by Hasegawa
(Please tell me I’m getting better at this.) The year 1995 seems like several centuries ago and it is, in one way. That year I finally managed to get my hands of the Hasegawa 1/72 kit of the Vought XF5U-1, probably lurking at the back of one of those old fashioned model shops that you…
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