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VOLUME 11. ISSUE 129. APRIL 2016
REGULARS
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- EDITORIAL
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- NEWSLINE
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- EVENTS DIARY
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- CONTACTS DETAILS
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Editorial:
FEATURES
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We visit Yeovilton for their Spring Model Show.
You find restored aircraft in the oddest of places…
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EDITORIAL
LIFE IS JUST TOO SHORT…
ne of the great things about
being an active member of the
online community is that you
can quickly find yourself in the
midst of a conversation about
the hobby, with modellers from around the
world. This week a posting on my Facebook
page sparked a fairly lengthy debate on
the different approaches that modeller take
to the completion of their kits - or more
specifically, those those that choose a
realistic route and those that apply finishes that are more artistic
in appearance.
As with anything to do with any leisure pursuit, the conversation
heated up, with those on each side of the divide offering their thoughts. It
was fun to be honest and helped further my understanding of the hobby
and our approach to it.
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This debate is actually nothing new. Modellers have been ‘discussing’
the whys and wherefores of weathering for as long as the hobby has
existed, those that like a more degraded look, being at odds with those
that seen models as only really being acceptable, if the paintwork is
perfect and the finish clean. In all honesty, I fall somewhere in the middle
- but then fence sitting is something that I’ve become very good at in my
time as a modelling editor…
I can understand both sides of the debate and feel that each
are correct in their view on the hobby; those that espouse a clean
appearance are correct because at some point the real machine was
perfectly clean; those that like a weathered finish are right because that
clean machine, was eventually used and machines that are used often
get dirty! So seeing both approaches appeals to me. A perfectly finished
model is just as appealing as one covered in dirt and it’s an approach
that I often rotate with my own builds, depending on what I want to
achieve. Recently, I built the Revell 1:32 Fw190 and Dragon Me109; the
former was painted to recreate a used, heavily weathered Eastern Front
This week a posting on my Facebook page sparked a daily
lengthy debate on the different approaches that modeller
take to the completion of their kits
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aircraft, whereas the latter was there to show how a brand-new, unpainted aircraft,
would have looked. I love both models, mainly because they are so different!
And then we have another group of modellers who are building kits at the
moment: those that are pushing the artistic envelope to produce models that are
almost illustrative in their appearance. This is often described as the “Spanish
School”, where details are heavily accentuated, panel lines defined with dark
shades and colours boosted, to produce a work of miniature art rather than a
true depiction of reality. I can understand this approach as well. Often, what we
build can be sombre in appearance, green and grey finishes hardly helping to
decorate the display case with eye-catching miniatures. Modellers are therefore
trying to elevate the paintwork so that they exhibit all manner of surface shades
and effects, so that any onlooker will see more than just a bland shape, broken up
with odd splashes of colour and detail. Though the understanding is there, I’m not
sure this heavily overworked look is for me. In my previous life as the Military In
Scale editor, I built an Airfix 1:48 Canberra and painted it using these ideas. At the
time I was more than happy with it, but today it looks all over the place, everything
being really overblown. Oddly though, when I posted this model online, it was
greeted with a whole raft of praise, which just goes to show that when it comes to
modelling and critiquing my own work, I know very little!
So ultimately, there is no right or wrong approach, it’s what suits you. As for
my work, I intend to carry on mixing it up every so often, painting models that are
realistic, clean and perhaps even artistic in appearance. After all, I wouldn’t want
everything to look the same now, would I?
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IN THIS ISSUE…
ur cover star this month is Airfix’ recently released
Avro Shackleton MR.2, which then forms the basis
of our extensive, two-part review. Initially, this was
planned to only feature in this issue, but there were
so many pictures of the model under construction,
that we decided to split it up to show off more of the detail and
features that both Airfix supply in their kit, and that we worked into
the build. We hope you like it and that you are not too bored of
Shackletons!
Along with the Shackleton we also take a look at two other new
kits, Roden’s 1:144 Bristol Britannia and AMK’s 1:48 L-29 Delfin. Both
of these kits are of types that are well-known and crying out to be
replicated, so it’s wonderful to see such fantastic replicas being offered
to the enthusiast. Along with our build of the L-29 we also have a full
reference feature on the aircraft which will allow you to perhaps add
even more detail to AMK’s already outstanding kit.
This then is the April edition of Model Airplane International - we
hope you like it!
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