Showing posts with label aircraft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aircraft. Show all posts
Sunday, June 25, 2023

Visiting the South Warwickshire Electric Flyers

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A work trip meant I couldn't attend the L&WMRS open day, but my Dad performed his usual "Meet and Greet" duties - which ga...
Saturday, December 10, 2022

Saturday Film Club: Building an Albatros D5 aeroplane

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I've had a go at building a balsa and dope kit in the past, and it sort of worked OK, but the idea of filming the process in stop-motion...
Wednesday, November 02, 2022

Larger scale aircraft 2022 - you do NOT need a 'plane!

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I couldn't stay long at the Berlingo event mentioned yesterday, because I wanted to pack another in on the same day. This time the stati...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Warehouse Wednesday: Airport control tower

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Pulling into the car park at the Bicester Heritage Centre for the G1MRA 75th birthday celebrations, and dodging a Tiger Moth that was being ...
Thursday, August 18, 2022

C-17 Globemaster III Transporter

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  My Dad has been suffering the same loss of modelling mojo recently that I and a lot of others have. In an effort to help, I treated him to...
Sunday, July 14, 2019

Cosford Large Aircraft 2019 - Rain stops plane

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The weather forecast promised cloudy skies. The previous weekends and even days running up to the event predicted sunshine and sun-hats.  ...
Saturday, January 05, 2019

Saturday Film Club: Building a Flying Fortress

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THIS sort of thing is why I think I'm a rubbish modeller. Tom Grigat not only makes a superb job of building an Airfix kit, and prod...
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Sunday, November 04, 2018

Large scale model aircraft 2018

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It takes a special kind of person to start building an 18ft wingspan Lancaster bomber - and an even more special one to finish it. At th...
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Sunday, August 19, 2018

Manx Aviation and military musem

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Down beside Ronaldsway airport, is the Manx Aviation and Military Museum.   Housed in a couple of large and interconnected Nissen hu...
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Saturday, November 11, 2017

Large Model Aircraft show 2017

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As ever, the static Large Model Aircraft show was home to superb workmanship in wood. There seemed to be a larger number of part-finishe...
Saturday, October 29, 2016

Large Scale Model Aircraft, Gaydon, 2016

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This show doesn't disapoint. Organised by the Large Model Association, as the escalator delivers you to the upper floor, the first m...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

Large Model Flyers, Cosford 2015

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The rain as we drove up the M6 didn't bode well for the day, but then the M6 is always grim anyway. By the time we made it to Cosford...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

G-ACSS

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How's this for coincidence. Just as I'm messing around with the Comet paintwork, in Smiffs is a magazine with the very aeroplane ...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Red paint - Part 2

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OK, so the acrylic paint isn't working for me. Not wanting to be defeated by a plastic pot of pigment, it's time to stop messing ar...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Red paint - Part 1

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While the kit hasn't gone together perfectly, I'm not too fussed about this. After all, it cost very little and is primarily a paint...
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Monday, December 22, 2014

De Havilland Comet paint test

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  So, I'm browsing the Airfix "Black Friday" sale and spot this rather nice looking aircraft for under 3 quid in the sel...
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Saturday, November 01, 2014

Large Model Association 2014

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Off to Gaydon last weekend where the builders of huge model aircraft were showing the results of their labours. While I still don't ha...
Saturday, January 04, 2014

Quickbuild Quick build

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Years ago, I used to look forward to a Christmas addition to my extensive Lego collection. Sometimes the larger and more complicated models ...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

P-51 Mustang egg plane

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Here's an odd concept - Hasegawa's Egg Planes. Cartoon versions of real aeroplanes that are sort of egg shaped. A bit of Manga carto...
Monday, November 18, 2013

Building Skipper Riley

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It's cartoon aeroplanes week here at Phil's Workbench! We start with the Zvezda kit for "Skipper Riley" - a character fr...