Showing posts with label masking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label masking. Show all posts
Monday, December 31, 2018

Recently Completed: Airfix 1:72 Hawker Typhoon Mk. Ib (A02041).

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This is the first Typhoon I have ever done (though there was a Matchbox 1:72 Tempest II back in the 80s). Tooled in 2013, this kit look...
Saturday, January 20, 2018

Keeping it Simple: Academy’s Hellcat

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When the weather has hit 112 F out there and you need AC and fan in combination to get through the day, you don’t want heavy, complicate...
Thursday, February 2, 2012

Kit Review: Fujimi 1:72 British Phantom F-4K (H-8)

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About two years ago I posted about the face-off between Hasegawa and Fujimi in the late ‘80s to mid ‘90s period, and particularly their batt...
Saturday, October 1, 2011

Simplifying Soft Masking

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Back when I started this blog, one of my most-viewed early posts was about detailing Hasegawa’s Bf 109 K-4, and one of the techniques I expl...
Thursday, February 3, 2011

It’s Good To Finish

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The Italeri Corsair is done, which unless I am mistaken constitutes my first finished Italeri kit ever. In some ways it was excellent, in so...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Attitude: Resisting the Fiddly

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Perhaps it’s the same phenomenon I was discussing last time, a mental blockage that keeps you from either seeing a solution or, just as impo...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

Product Review: Tamiya Masking Tape

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I remember building Revell's prototype F-16 when I was a kid, in the early 1970s, the one painted up in red, white and blue. The kit was...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

Product Review: Alliance Model Works Painting Masks

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 Now here is a truly good idea! The template painting method for wheels has been around for quite a while and it makes a slow, tedious, “iff...
Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Product Review: Eduard Masks

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   There are all sorts of tools and supplies in the modelling hobby, and it’s a fair criticism to ask if the modern hobbyist is well-served ...