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  • Sometimes, you just have to take it easy.

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    Fairey Firefly FR.5, WB351/202/K, HMAS Sydney, RAN, Korea, 1951-52 This was a “free to me” kit found on the spare parts table at a recent club meeting. The Subject The Royal Australian Navy had a few Firefly FR.5 aircraft just prior to the Korean war but these were in a modification program to upgrade them…

  • Bertold’s Fokker

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    Rudolf Berthold, JG2, 1918 This was another of my “shelf of doom” models that I’d started at least 15 years ago. What stopped me then was a lack of lozenge decals and my inability to paint them. The Subject If you know very little about World War I aircraft, you probably know about the Fokker…

  • Peashooter in Gold

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    P-26A 18th Pursuit Group This one had stalled since July 2012 due to…decals. I had them, had started putting them on, but it is usually during the decal stage that a great model start to turn into an average model (for me anyway). Something always goes wrong. So before this one went South I stopped,…