(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…

(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…

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…

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.…

The BAC Lightning we’ve been waiting for (October 2008) Many years ago, before many fine MoBsters were even born, I got this fixation on the English Electric Lightning. If there was ever an aeroplane that looked like it meant business with a capital B it was the Lightning. Nothing more than a couple of huge,…

With the Matchbox McDonnell F-101, the Hasegawa Convair F-102 and F-106, lots of head scratching and lashings of grey paint (March 2008) Back in the mists of time when Hasegawa first released their Convair F-106 kit I thought it was the most magnificent looking aeroplane ever made. With its delta wing and slick fuselage it…