Category: Australian aircraft

• 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

• 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