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Scale Modelling Articles & How-tos
Technique, research, colour, tools and practical bench knowledge from Kawartha Scale Modellers.
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Blaugrau — The Evidence Keeps Piling Up | Challenging German AFV Interior Colour Myths
MODELWORX / HISTORICAL COLOUR RESEARCH BLAUGRAU THE EVIDENCE KEEPS PILING UP German AFV interiors, the limits of photographic colour and the manufacturing record behind the red-primer convention. 01…
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Monday Muse☕ | The Mystery of the Missing Ace — The Woman Who Loved Him
In Malta, a decorated RAF reconnaissance pilot found love with an intelligent, celebrated performer whose service earned the British Empire Medal. Their romance survived the siege but not…
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Sunday Muse ☕ | Spirit of Ecstasy — The Legacy of a Mistress
The legacy of a mistress: a forbidden Edwardian romance, the sinking of S.S. Persia, and a muse immortalised in silver.
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Saturday Muse ☕ | Forbidden Love, Wings & Tragedy — The Real-Life English Patient Story
Saturday Muse · History / Cinema / Aviation Kawartha Scale Modellers · A Saturday Muse Feature Forbidden Love, Wings & Tragedy The Real-Life English Patient Story…
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Honouring Canadian Soldiers CFB Wainwright-Alberta
In Honour of Those Lost at CFB Wainwright, Alberta Kawartha Scale Modellers joins Canadians in mourning the soldiers who lost their lives, remembering their service, and extending our…
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Mercedes CLK-GTR Master Build
KSM News Oct 2026 FineScale Modeler Magazine At this year’s HeritageCon, there were many amazing models, like this Mercedes CLK-GTR from Dalt Nyberg. See this and a sampling…
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When Synthetic Fiction Becomes Historical Fact
GERMAN ARMOUR · YUGOSLAVIA · APRIL 1941 German Armour, 1941 — The Difference Between Archival Reconstruction and Inventing History There is a growing problem in military-history and scale-modelling…
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KSM and IPMS Gloucester Become Twinned Clubs
Building Friendship and Sharing Modelling Knowledge Across the Atlantic Kawartha Scale Modellers and IPMS Gloucester have established a twinned-club relationship, bringing together two modelling communities in Canada and…
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Colourizing J18: British Service Brown and Khaki at Amiens, 1918
Using an original British Army paint formula and surviving uniform evidence to rebuild the colours of Mark V tank №.9435 Colourizing an archival photograph should not be an…
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Mythbusting German AFV “Unreliability”
Reassessing Post-War Evidence vs. Popularized Internet Myths Forget the YouTube clichés—this deep-dive draws on original war diaries, technical trials, and firsthand accounts too. “Falsehood flies, and the Truth…
