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My F-104 review/build published!
I hope isn’t too unseemly to mention this, Scott Van Akin at Modelling Madness . com accepted my 1/144 F-104J/G review and built and its up! http://www.modelingmadness.com/reviews/viet/us/abbott… more →
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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 →
Glossy and flat paints and finishes
Bill Abbott wrote 8 months ago: Two great questions brought people to my blog yesterday 1) How do you make a gloss paint have a matt … more →
Building Italeri’s 1:72 B-25B as a Doolittle Raider
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Bill Abbott wrote 8 months ago: (I wrote this back in ‘03 and it was published in The Styrene Sheet, Silicon Valley Scale Mode … more →
Going in the right direction - fighting AMS
Bill Abbott wrote 9 months ago: Like too many older model builders, I went from building a given kit in an hour or two (yay!) to cla … more →
Favorite model building tools: Stainless Steel micro-spatula
Bill Abbott wrote 1 year ago: Here is one of the things I’d take to a desert island, or on any trip where I could reasonably … more →
Search question "can you use thinned out oil based paint"?
Bill Abbott wrote 1 year ago: Absolutely. I’ve done it myself, and a fellow I know in Cuba routinely uses artist’s oil … more →
Mix your own Mixed Gray... its the purpley one you used to see in the '60s...
Bill Abbott wrote 1 year ago: Friends, In the late spring of 1942, the RAF changed camouflage colors for planes flying in daylight … 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 →
Airliners International 2008 at DFW Airport, Wow!
Bill Abbott wrote 1 year ago: I had a whirlwind day at the AI 2008 Airliner nerd/enthusiast show and it was terrific! Important fa … more →
Remove Future Floor Wax from clear model parts with Windex...
Bill Abbott wrote 1 year ago: I goofed up my second coat of Future on the clear windows part of a Heller/Airfix 1/43 Mitsubishi WR … more →
US Navy and Royal Navy Military Model Airplane Colors
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Bill Abbott wrote 1 year ago: Another post that ought to be a page- with more research. Lets start like this and improve then. A l … more →
Surface Tension, paint codes, yellow zinc chromate using Tamiya paints, RAAF, Bell, thinning Vallejo & MM Acryl paints
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Bill Abbott wrote 1 year ago: Incidentally, if you enjoy or disagree with or otherwise respond to what I write about I’d lov … more →
Deeply nerdy WWII RAF/USAAF/RAAF/Flying Tigers camouflage stuff: Flat Dark Earth Federal Standard.
Bill Abbott wrote 1 year ago: A question that brought someone to this blog was “Flat Dark Earth Federal Standard”. I d … more →
Answers to the questions that brought people to my blog...
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Bill Abbott wrote 1 year ago: Hmm, wordpress saves what the search key was that brought people to my stuff, and there were a bunch … 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 →
Thinning, mixing, spraying and 'washing' with water-based model paints
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Bill Abbott wrote 1 year ago: Thinning Because Polly Scale, Testors Model Master Acryl and Vallejo paints are clearly water based, … 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 →
