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Building Plastic Models. How-to, tools to use.
This article presents a “short form” and then repeats the short form with a longer discussion of each point. The goal is to put the basic information needed to build a plastic model into y… more →
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Building Plastic Models. How-to, tools to use.
Bill Abbott wrote 3 days ago: This article presents a “short form” and then repeats the short form with a longer discu … more →
Monogram's old Mosquito nose transparencies..
Bill Abbott wrote 2 months ago: My straight-out-of-the-box Monogram Mosquito is getting closer to being done. I lightly brushed Futu … more →
MagellanModels-Desktop Airplanes and Diecast Cars
Magellan Models wrote 5 months ago: Magellan Models specializes in high quality museum grade models from Air, Land, and Sea. We proudly … more →
The best and worst plastic kits IMHO.
Bill Abbott wrote 6 months ago: Which are the best and worst plastic model kits? So many qualify, but the criteria I might use are w … more →
my F-104 review/build published!
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Bill Abbott wrote 7 months ago: I hope isn’t too unseemly to mention this, Scott Van Akin at Modelling Madness . com accepted … more →
Egyptians to Israel: 30 years of peace is OVERRATED
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cultureschlock wrote 8 months ago: Egypt's October 1973 War Panorama Museum (New York Times photo) One of my biggest regrets during … more →
Glossy and flat paints and finishes
Bill Abbott wrote 9 months ago: Two great questions brought people to my blog yesterday 1) How do you make a gloss paint have a matt … more →
Going in the right direction - fighting AMS
Bill Abbott wrote 10 months ago: Like too many older model builders, I went from building a given kit in an hour or two (yay!) to cla … more →
Other Mosquito cockpit information I'm looking for:
Bill Abbott wrote 1 year ago: (I wrote this note to the nice folks at www.warbirdrestoration.com, who have a huge stash of Mosquit … more →
Paint color call-outs in kit instructions, believe 'em? Mfg's own paint #s...
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Bill Abbott wrote 1 year ago: “Propwash” over on the Aeroscale.kitmaker.net site asked the following, excellent, quest … more →
"Water" based model paints. Testor's Acryl, Polly-Scale, Tamiya, Gunze-Sanyo and now Vallejo
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Bill Abbott wrote 1 year ago: I build (or at least start) a fair number of plastic models, particularly airplanes and cars, but al … more →
Quick reviews of San Francisco Bay Area Hobby Shops
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Bill Abbott wrote 1 year ago: Berkeley Ace Hardware 2145 University Ave, Berkeley, CA – (510) 845-0410 http://berkeleyace.co … more →
