Category: Australian aircraft

• Vultee Vengeance – Part Two – The Assembly Line

  

  I am never loathe to accept advice from people who really know how to do something well. Not so sanguine about being told off by those who have never done something themselves, but I’ve learned to put up a poker face and not react. Eventually they go away and I can get on with it.…

  Dick Stein

  October 8, 2018

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Czech models, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  horizontal stab iliser, measuring, Vultee

• Vultee Vengeance – Part One – The Show Special

  

  When I went to this year’s WASMEX plastic model show I promised myself that I would only get one thing. Of course, I was a liar and a fraud; I purchased three things. The last of which came off the stash today and out in front of the camera – the Special Hobby 1:72 Vultee Vengeance.…

  Dick Stein

  October 8, 2018

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Box Art, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Decals, Model Airplane, Painting

  RAAF, resin parts, target tug, vac-form parts, Vultee

• Bristol Benheim Mk I – Part Four – The Museum Aircraft

  

  So why does a Bristol Blenheim Mk I bomber – a quintessentially early war RAF light bomber – show up in the Bomber Command hall of Stein’s Air World? I mean apart from the fact that there was a kit on the shelf at Stanbridge’s Hobby Shop and I had money in my pocket… If…

  Dick Stein

  August 24, 2018

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, British aircraft, camouflage, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Museums, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Air World Museum, Bristol, Canada, RAAF, RAF, RCAF

• We Need The Tiny Tin Can

  

  I am looking at small and large cans of paint – spray paint, as it happens – and wondering at the rationale around it. The can contained a grey Tamiya primer. I’ve just sprayed the very last of it on a 1:72 aircraft and can feel satisfied – it completed the job just before it…

  Dick Stein

  July 22, 2018

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, American aircraft, Australian aircraft, British aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Enamel, German aircraft, Japanese aircraft, Painting, Uncategorized, Workshop

  paint, spray painting, Tamiya

• Precision Need Not Be Prestigious

  

  Nor need it be pricey.* I came to that conclusion each time I approached the Hobby Boss Brewster Buffalo kit – even at the wash and trim stage – where I got the mould-parting agent off the basic sprues and then air-dried them. And then started cutting parts from them and building subassembies. This was…

  Dick Stein

  July 8, 2018

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Chinese models, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Hobby Boss, LGB, Mould-making, Stainz loco

• The Kids In The Candy Store

  

  For a number of years I avoided going into hobby shops. Whether I thought they were passé or whether I thought I was more sophisticated…I don’t know. The result of this was I missed out on some of the really great hobby experiences – things that came and went while I was somewhere else. Now…

  Dick Stein

  June 11, 2018

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Australian aircraft, British aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Collecting, Dioramas, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Model Buildings, Scale Models, Soviet aircraft, Uncategorized

  aircraft, hobbys, scale modelling

• Modelling To A Theme – Building For A Purpose

  

  I have a confession to make. I have a mental condition that permeates my life. It has affected me ever since childhood and makes itself felt in everything I do. It is sometimes a good thing and sometimes bad…but I have come to realise what it is and to accept it. It is the need…

  Dick Stein

  May 30, 2018

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Australian aircraft, British aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Collecting, Dioramas, Hobby Shops, Model Airplane, Museums, Scale Models

  concentration, modelling, themes

• The Integrated Multi-Level Spatial Constructional Workflow Paradigm

  

  Oops, sorry. I had the Dilbert switch turned on there when I typed that. Lemme turn it off. Here we go again. ” When To Glue Things On. ” That’s better. As a topic it may seem a lot more complex than it really is…because the whole thing basically is not to stick something on…

  Dick Stein

  May 18, 2018

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Australian aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Czech models, Japanese aircraft, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  instruction sheets, planning, workflow

• Where Was That Blasted XF-68?

  

  Yes, I paint model kits. Yes, I have more than one bottle of paint. Yes, I lose the occasional one down the back of the sofa… Now that I am building more model aircraft kits from different air forces I am getting more paints. Some are direct shades and some are mixtures. I have transcribed…

  Dick Stein

  May 17, 2018

  Acrylic, American aircraft, Australian aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Enamel, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Soviet aircraft, Uncategorized, Workshop

  labeling, Organisation, paint

• Ye Olde Kitte

  

  I went to the swap-meet section of the plastic modelling exhibition a little while ago and looked around. I do that – surreptitious spying is one of those hobbies that you can do with little initial outlay – Just a black cloak and broad – brimmed hat. The dark sunglasses and anarchist’s bomb are just…

  Dick Stein

  May 16, 2018

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Australian aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Collecting, Czech models, Military models, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  exhibition, old models, swap meet