One of the many thing that I encounter on Hyperscale (you know and I know that’s where it is) is discussion about “scale effect.” This…
When I decided to build this “simple” Hurricane–part of what I wanted to do was “stippling” to create the illusion of sprayed-on paint. I described…
I put a coat of RAF Dark Earth and Dark Green on Bader’s Hurricane. The colors started out being the bottled versions from Polly Scale.…
The idea here is to fix something that bugs me. I’m not going to correct every error. Just the stuff that I don’t like. For…
Douglas Bader was a good example of what can go wrong when you have a guy in charge who is charismatic and aggressive. Bader wanted…
I own two airbrushes and a compressor. They’re not new. I bought the compressor in the seventies. Yeah–that seventies. The Paasche came from about 1980…
I thought we’d take a small break from the usual complaining to take a look at the history of The Old West. I find that…
I say that I’m not a builder but propellers seem to be one area where I put knife to plastic on a regular basis. I…
I already have three Hurricanes in my collection. A Revell Mk. II, an Airfix Mk. I and a Hasegawa “Mk. I.” Having built these plastic…
I’ve decided to go with my version of a Rotol prop. It fits better and looks slightly better (I think). Here’s what Hasegawa thinks makes…