Category: Australian aircraft

• Move Over Acme Manufacturing Co…

  

  Because the Little Workshop is here and we’ve got the ideas that’ll make your life easier. They’re not giant projects – they’re not vast concepts – but by golly when we think things up, they’re half-vast. Like our new model building supports. We’ve all had times whilst building an airplane kit when we needed to…

  Dick Stein

  May 7, 2018

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Chinese models, Czech models, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Tools, Workshop

  jigs, Painting, Tools, workshop tools

• The Small Encouragement – F2A Five

  

  The people who have been reading about my Anson Encounter may have formed the opinion that it was a difficult time. That it may have been driving me to blasphemy, murder, or federal politics. Rest assured, while I have no problem with the first two, I would never stoop to the last. But there was…

  Dick Stein

  April 7, 2018

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, Australian aircraft, Chinese models, Decals, Hobby Shops, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, RAAF Cunoath Downs

  1:72 airplane, Brewster, Hobby Boss

• I Only Know What I Don’t Read In The Papers – F2A Four

  

  My misquotation of Will Rogers is not meant to be disrespectful – I have always thought him one of the finest humourists that the Americas have produced. But he was long before the era of the internet and the wonderful collection of bad information that it provides. Note that I’m not using this column to…

  Dick Stein

  April 7, 2018

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, Australian aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, YouTube videos

  Clear varnish, Humbrol, internet, paint, Tamiya, YouTube

• ” Hey You! What’s The Small Idea? ” – F2A Three

  

  If I were a spray painter on a full-size airplane I’d have no troubles spraying a fine line between colours. A few sheets of newspaper to screen off the overspray and away I’d go matching up the instructions. But I am working in 1:72 scale and I don’t think that my hand skills are such…

  Dick Stein

  April 6, 2018

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, Australian aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Brewster, camouflage, dentures, Masking, tinfoil

• I Can See Clearly Now! – F2A Two

  

  Woah! That’s a revelation! I’ve been learning the business of masking and painting clear canopies and turrets for the 1:72 aircraft over the past couple of months. It has not been an easy process, as I have discovered just how un-detailed parts can be in some kits. If you combine this with the propensity of…

  Dick Stein

  April 5, 2018

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Chinese models, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, Stein Index Number, subassembly, Uncategorized

  canopy, masking windows, Painting

• The Complete Story Of…Sin Five

  

  ” Well? Where is it? Where’s the last part of the title? We paid for the whole damn title…” I’ll get round to it eventually…but first a word about sloth for modellers. The word is  – slow down. No sense rushing a modelling job. Slow and steady wins the race. A good job well begun…

  Dick Stein

  March 31, 2018

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Chinese models, Czech models, Doll Houses, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  inattention, lack of interest, laziness

• Well, Sheet…Now What’s Gone Wrong?

  

  The heading image is fuzzy, out of focus, over coloured, and frightening. That actually describes my mind on a lot of occasions – federal elections, tax time, family festivals, etc – but in this instance it was actually vital – I need decals for my new aircraft. And my go-to solution for them appeared to…

  Dick Stein

  March 25, 2018

  Australian aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Decals, Hobby Shops, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models

  Decals, Epson, inkjet printing, Testors