More Masochist Corner

(November 2010) Keen readers will recall that previously I made mention of a couple of projects I was working on. One, the LeO 231 has made no progress since then, perhaps because I’ve found something even more challenging, to use a well worn phrase. But before that, let me finish off the business of the…

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Masochist Corner

(October 2010) There’s something wrong with me, I’m sure of it. There are hobby shops full to overflowing with kits of Spitfires, Mustangs, Bf109s and Tigers in every mark and variation, but they hold no interest for me. With these kits you can knock our a more than respectable model with little effort, just cut…

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Ilyushin Il-96-300 in 1/144 by Tupolev

At a swap-n-sell I managed to pick up a 1/144 kit of the Ilyushin Il-96 airliner. Never heard of it? I’m not surprised. It was a Russian attempt to develop a long range airliner in the class of the A.340 and Boeing 777 but the company soon discovered that it could not compete with the…

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Douglas C-124 in 1/144 by Anigrand

Perhaps I should ask people to find a name for the kind of animal the C-124 reminds them of. To me it looks, well, like a big fat hippopotamus (how do you spell that again?) wearing one of those plastic charity red noses. Which might be the reason why I’ve had the desire to make…

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Convair B-58A in 1/144 by Hobbycraft

One thing is for sure, the Convair B-58 looked like it was doing mach 2 when it was just sitting on the tarmac. It was one of those aeroplanes that looked just perfect for the job it was designed to do, to deliver atomic weapons into the USSR at high altitude and high speed. I…

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Convair XB-46 in 1/144 by Anigrand

The Convair XB-46 was one of those thought experiments that took place towards the end of World War II and into the early 1950s. All the aerodynamic experiments and developments in jet engines combined with the lessons of the war led to all kinds of experiments into how to make effective warplanes in this new…

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Boeing 737s in 1/244 by Airfix, Minicraft & Revell

From the inside I’ve had enough of Boeing 737s in this past year, but from the outside they come in such a variety of shapes, sizes and plumages that it would be hard not to find them interesting. From a leftover thought from Boeing 707s and 727s they’ve become the most popular and numerous airliner…

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I Fought Alclad II and Alclad II Won

So you want to paint your model so it doesn’t look painted (November 2008) It comes in little bottles that cost not quite as much as French perfume, but doesn’t smell as good either. It’s raison d’etre is to make the lives of modellers simpler and much happier. But for me it has been the…

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Three Cheers for Monsieur Dujin

The uniqueness and challenge of making a Dujin model (January 2009) A decade or so ago I decided to find out more about French aviation. France has been at the forefront of development is aviation from the earliest days and more recently Dassault, Aerospatiale and Airbus have produced some of the world’s most important aeroplanes.…

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