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Nope: A Rant About Awful Engineering
When I started building models as a kid, I had no idea what I was doing. Gradually, that changed. And one of the first kits that I actually, legitimately tried at was Monogram’s venerable OS2U...
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Painting & Weathering Study: Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless
With the Kingfisher out of the running for my upcoming magazine build, I’ve had to cast around for another suitable subject. The only real requirement is that the subject be painted in the tricolor...
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One Shot, and Only One
How long do you have to stick with a product before you can pass judgment on it? To some out there, it’s inappropriate to call a product crap when it completely and totally fails you out of the gate....
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America. Not that Great (at Modeling).
***NOTE: I’ve seen a few comments around the interwebs accusing me of being a European troll or something. LOL. Talk about a failure of reading comprehension. But, to set the record straight, I’m an...
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Tamiya’s 1/32 Release Pattern
Tamiya’s next big 1/32 release is a perennially popular topic around the modelling interwebs. I’ve written about it several times, including: Wait, Tamiya’s Doing a 1/32 P-51D Mustang? – 2011 Thoughts...
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Bracingly Honest Kit Reviews – A Proposal
Kit reviews are broken. Most of the time, they just scratch the surface. Sprues are pawed through, a few ejector pins are noted, and the kit is pronounced “highly recommended”. Sometimes they go...
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Contributor-Supported Reviews: Round 1 Selection
It’s hard to believe it’s been less than a week since I got this notion in my head about contributor-supported, unflinching kit reviews. While there’s been some measure of expected butthurt, the...
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1/32 Fly Hurricane – Thoughts at the Midway Point
At what point does “it’s a limited run kit” stop being an explanation, and become an excuse? As I reach the halfway point of my Fly Hurricane review build, that’s the question that keeps rising to the...
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Haters Gonna Hate
When I started this blog as a side project/sandbox/way to give back nearly six years ago (holy shit does time fly!), I could not have guessed that it would reach the heights it has. What started as a...
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A Change to Kit Review Voting
TL;DR Version – Voting will be changing so that a portion of the votes for the winning kit are retired. This preserves ownership, ensures shifting influence in the voting pool, and answers the...
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Review Format – How Do You Want It?
Now that the Fly Hurricane has been built and exhaustively documented, it’s time to sort out how exactly to put together the review. What exactly has been gathered? Around 80 photos of the build...
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Review: 1/32 Fly Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIc
NOTE: I will be adding to and editing this post as additional videos come online. Keep an eye out for updates! Not too long ago, I had a thought. And that thought quickly turned into an effort....
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Contributor-Funded Kit Reviews: Round 2 Selection Time!
Now that the first contibutor-funded kit review – of Fly’s 1/32 Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIc – is done and the build videos are rolling out, it’s time to start looking ahead to the next one. First, some...
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On Conflation
In wrapping up my review of the Fly Hurricane, I touched on the idea of modeling preferences falling on a spectrum (or really, multiple spectrums). There was a reason for this. This hobby, perhaps...
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Building Kinetic’s 1/48 F-5B Freedom Fighter
It’s been a while since I’ve done any kind of build log on here, so I decided it might be worth revisiting a few past builds to walk through the process and various encounters along the way. In 2015, I...
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Contributor-Funded Kit Reviews – Round 2 Winner
Voting’s wrapped on Round 2, and the winner is… Kinetic’s new-tool 1/48 F/A-18C Hornet! Ultimately, this round came down to the Hornet and the Bronco P-40C, with Hasegawa’s 1/32 A6M5c and Kinetic’s...
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1/32 Trumpeter SBD-5 Dauntless – Part 1
When The Weathering Magazine’s aircraft-focused spinoff, Weathering Aircraft, reached out to me about doing a build for an upcoming publication, the request was pretty wide open. World War II, with a...
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Quick Review: 1/32 Special Hobby Hawker Tempest V
Around the time Alaric was leading his Visigoths toward Rome, Special Hobby began work on their 1/32 Hawker Tempest. Okay, maybe not that long ago. But this kit has been in development for years. Now...
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Review: 1/48 Kinetic F/A-18C Hornet
Welcome to the second entry in the Contributor-Funded Kit Review series! This time out, the subject is Kinetic’s new-tool 1/48 F/A-18C Hornet. Curious about contributor-funded thing, or want to see...
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Slow Down, Speed Racer
Want to step up your modeling game? Here’s an idea – slow the fuck down. What’s brought this about? Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen a spate of builds that have gone by in the blink of an eye. One...
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