Category: Australian aircraft

• Airbrushing Outside The Box

  

  My learning curve with the airbrush was a bit steep a few years ago. It has become easier lately, but occasionally jags upward again. To be fair, it’s me kicking it up. I continually decide that I need to improve upon proven techniques. Even if I got a good result last time. I seem incapable…

  Dick Stein

  April 8, 2020

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, British aircraft, camouflage, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Masking, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Workshop

  airbrushing, camouflage, Masking

• Sandown Park 2019 – Part One – Silver

  

  Well, there we were, folks – Sandown Park in Melbourne for the 2019 model exhibition. Plenty of parking, real live motor cars circling the track, and a large canteen area set aside for the punters. What more could one want? One of the first tables that caught the eye after I rounded the Wall O’…

  Dick Stein

  June 18, 2019

  1:72 scale, airliner, Australian aircraft, Civil aircraft, Colour Schemes, French aircraft, Model Airplane, Model building club, Painting, Scale Models

  model exhibition, Sandown Park, silver finish

• The Vacuum Forms

  

  If you want to put the fear of God into someone, just say vacuum-form. They will either go very hot or very cold, and you must be prepared for them to pull the lever on the ejector seat. You may end up talking to yourself and landing the thing yourself… The vac-form kit seems to…

  Dick Stein

  May 30, 2019

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  canopies, scratchbuilding, vac-form

• Shaky Legs, Don’t Just Stand There…

  

  And bite that trembling lip. A good idea has just surfaced. Model airplane kit builders can access any number of specialized kits and parts these days. If you find something crude in the box, you just keep shopping until you find a Czech firm that have made a better replacement part for it. Of course…

  Dick Stein

  May 5, 2019

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Australian aircraft, British aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Czech models, French aircraft, German aircraft, Italian aircraft, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, research, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  kits, landing gear, scale, whitemetal

• The Long-Started Kit

  

  A very long time ago I bought a plastic model kit for my daughter. This sounds like the standard modeller’s joke excuse, but I assure you that it was not that at all. My daughter and I had just flown in an Ansett Airways Boeing 767 – 200 to the eastern states for a holiday…

  Dick Stein

  December 13, 2018

  American aircraft, Australian aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  airliner, Boeing, Doyusha, large scale, old kit

• The Museum Approach

  

  Go to your local museum – it doesn’t matter what type you choose; art, science, technology, cars, planes, boats, dolls. If you’ve got an interest, go spark it at the museum. While you are oohing and ahhing at the exhibits, look about you at the facilities. The architecture of a museum can be as interesting…

  Dick Stein

  November 27, 2018

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Australian aircraft, British aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Collecting, Colour Schemes, Dioramas, German aircraft, Italian aircraft, Japanese aircraft, Military models, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Museums, Scale Model Buildings

  Air World Museum, Stein’s Air World

• Out Of The Box

  

  ” Oh he’s just built that out of the box “… If you ever hear this you are entitled to sneer, but be careful where you direct your lip. The speaker is using the word ” just ” to belittle the modeller. There is a suggestion of lack of skill or imagination. Possibly a financial…

  Dick Stein

  October 13, 2018

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Australian aircraft, Czech models, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  model boxes, OOTB building, value

• Vultee Vengeance – Part Five – We’ll All Pull Together

  

  Our winches between our knees. As they say in the recruiting posters ” It’s Men’s Life In The Target Tug Crews “. It sure is. Of course the men are nervous gibbering wrecks who shy away from sudden movement and loud noises, but that’s beside the point. Someone has to tow canvas cones behind an…

  Dick Stein

  October 12, 2018

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  lacquer paint, target tug, Vultee

• Vultee Vegeance – Part Four – Lacquer

  

  Now before you start writing in to the editor to complain about the appearance of the heading image, let me remind you that I am the editor. And there is nothing wrong with the image – it is a plain and simple Vultee in conservative colours. It’s your eyes that are wrong… The new target…

  Dick Stein

  October 11, 2018

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, American aircraft, Australian aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  colour, lacquer paint, target tug, Vultee

• Vultee Vengeance – Part Three – How Green Was My Vultee

  

  If the fumes from the paint don’t kill me, the bad puns will. Probably through the agency of enraged listeners seeking me out to stop them. Actually, I am very proud of this one, as it involves real thinking and research. As I am building a Vultee Vengeance in RAF or RAAF service ( not…

  Dick Stein

  October 10, 2018

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, Australian aircraft, British aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, research, Scale Models

  cockpit, lacquer paint, Mr. Color, RAAF, Vultee, zinc chromate