Category: 1:48 scale

• The Noodles You Have In Your Bowl

  

  Are all you need. Have you ever been to a fast food outlet that tried to sell you food by asking whether you wanted to ” up-size ” it? Did you agree or decline, thinking that a standard-size assault on your gall bladder was all you really needed? You felt you had just been hustled.…

  Dick Stein

  October 20, 2024

  1:35 scale, 1:48 scale, after-market, design, frugality, Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Modelling Supplies, scratch-building, subassembly, Uncategorized

  after-market, frugal modelling, Hobby Shops, kits

• The Burgeoning

  

  It is like ” The Quickening ” only it takes longer. It also takes more money, time, and space. The Burgeoning is the process by which scale model kits get bigger and more complex. It steers the scale model hobby into new areas of expertise while it clutters up display cabinets worldwide. It’s not hard…

  Dick Stein

  October 10, 2024

  1:35 scale, 1:48 scale, 1:72 scale, Collecting, design, display, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Uncategorized

  big models, small models

• Historical Friends

  

  I hope that’s right – I tried ” Hysterical Friends ” and the auto-correct passed that as well… One of the groups I belong to is called ” Historical Modelling Friends “. We meet either at the Cambridge Public Library in Floreat or at my studio in Willetton. The sessions are always modelling afternoons –…

  Dick Stein

  August 12, 2024

  1:35 scale, 1:48 scale, 1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Block Models, British aircraft, Dioramas, display, History, Israeli aircraft, Military models, Miniature Philosophy, Model building club, Modelling exhibitions, Uncategorized

  exhibitions, HMF club, Organisation

• The Scale Of the Problem

  

  Is related to the person judging it. Those who have a problem, have a problem. Those who do not, have the people who do, and that is a problem… Some years ago I noted an very attractive model of a modern jetliner at an exhibition of scale models. There were ground crew figures and vehicles…

  Dick Stein

  August 2, 2024

  1:48 scale, 1:64 scale, Collecting, design, Dioramas, frugality, Miniature photography, Model cars, Scale Model Buildings

  1:48 scale, 1:64 scale, play value

• Shinden – Part One – Out Of The Mould

  

  And into the mould. This kit has been invaded. Not by aliens…mould spores are definitely from here on Earth. And this Hasegawa kit has met them. Perhaps from time spent in Japan in humid weather or out in the sheed during the winter.. The condition of the box, instructions, and decals shows fair deterioration, though…

  Dick Stein

  November 24, 2023

  1:48 scale, Decals, Instructions, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

• I’m Not Sure What It’s Supposed To Be

  

  But I’ll follow the instruction sheet. I have never heard of the aircraft, nor of the maker. I barely recognise the firm who moulded the kit, though I see they are registered in Liberia. It says so on their stern. I will google up the thing when I get it home but I hope I…

  Dick Stein

  November 12, 2023

  1:48 scale, 1:72 scale, design, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, prototypes, Russian models, Uncategorized

  eastern kits, obscure designs, Soviet aircraft

• Polikarpov I-16 – Part Three – ¡Vistoso!

  

  I am charmed with the way the Academy 1:48 model of the Polikarpov allows more space for decoration. Not a lot more – this is a small aircraft – but at least 1 .5 X the surface area to paint. The Spanish Republicans seem to have had a number of schemes – they were not…

  Dick Stein

  August 23, 2023

  1:48 scale, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Model building club, Painting, Soviet aircraft