Category: British aircraft

• Grumman F6F Hellcats – Part Two – The FAA

  

  The Fleet Air Arm has always been a thing unto itself. Not quite the Royal Navy but certainly not the Royal Air Force. Attached to the stuffiest of the traditional services but trying to operate the newest of the weapons. While not always given the newest of the weapons. Sort of the ” special ”…

  Dick Stein

  April 5, 2020

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

  FAA, Grumman Hellcat, Lindberg, naval aircraft

• Grumman F6F Hellcats – Part One – The Cheap Twins

  

  There is no box art to show you with this build; there was no box. The kits that comprise it were left on the table at our modeller’s club with a ” Free to a good home ” sign. I live in a good home… They appear to be part of a three-plane set from…

  Dick Stein

  April 5, 2020

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  drone, FAA, Hellcat, Lindberg

• Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part Six – Don’t Touch Me…

  

  I’m clean. And socially isolated. And I want to remain this way for at least five minutes… There probably never was a clean Coastal Command Wellington. Or Liberator, Sunderland, Digby, Whitley, or Hudson…or anything else that started life as white on the underside. Think about it. Underneath is where things run to when they leak,…

  Dick Stein

  April 1, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, camouflage, Czech models, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  campuflage, Coastal Command, Wellington bomber

• Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part Five – A Whiter Shade Of Pale

  

  A confession – I was courting when ” A Whiter Shade Of Pale ” was new on the charts and I tried to be cool by dancing to it. It goes on longer than a Methodist sermon but without the jazzy language or uptempo beat… I hated it then and I hate it now. The…

  Dick Stein

  March 31, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Mr. Color, rattle can, Wellington bomber

• Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part Four – Mr Ghost

  

  Are we ever ready for the undercoat in our lives? Probably not…but when we make model kits there comes a time when we are definitely going to have to reach for the spray. I say that as an airbrush user, but I think the rattle can people are in much the same boat. I have…

  Dick Stein

  March 30, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Mr. Color, primer, Tamiya paint, Wellington bomber

• Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part Three – Lemme Up Youse Mugs!

  

  I’ll murdalize ya! Just lemme up! The building table was well in use in our heading shot as I sought to get the tailplanes level and even on the Wellington Mk 1C. The fuselage had been cemented with Humbrol Poly tube cement due to an article I found featuring a build of this same plane.…

  Dick Stein

  March 29, 2020

  1:72 scale, adhesives, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, subassembly, Workshop

  Mr. Base White, tube cement, Wellington bomber

• Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part Two – More Poles

  

  Our heading image is very close to the version of the Wellington Mk 1C that I am building, though in the case of this plane it has the later grey and grey/green upper works rather than the green/brown. But it provides painting hints that Italeri have left out of their instructions, so I am grateful.…

  Dick Stein

  March 28, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Czech models, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Workshop

  engines, moulding, turrets, Wellington bomber

• Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part One – Sold Down The Aisle

  

  If ever there was an example of successful box art it must surely be this Italeri 1:72 Vickers Wellington Mk IC – successful for me and for the hobby shop. The end flap illustration caught my eye in Hearn’s Hobbies in Melbourne and I was sold as soon as I slid the box down off…

  Dick Stein

  March 27, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models

  Coastal Command, Polish Sqn, Wellington bomber

• Gloster Meteor F.1 – Part Four – The Bomb Buster

  

  The Gloster Meteor F.1 is done. And I couldn’t be more pleased with a new kit maker. Dragon Models is a winner in my books – with only a very few slip-ups during the entire process. I shall now look them up in the net to see if there are any more 1:72 items they…

  Dick Stein

  March 15, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  AK paints, camouflage, clear coats, Gloster Meteor

• Gloster Meteor F.1 – Part Three – Just Outta The Paint Shop

  

  Well, it has been a couple of days. We are in spring*, which means we should be getting warmer weather soon. But we also get the tail end showers of winter with the ensuing bad paint conditions. So I have been dodging in and out of the Little Workshop catching my opportunities as they arise;…

  Dick Stein

  March 15, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Masking, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Painting, Scale Models, Stein’s Air World, Workshop

  Gloster Meteor, jet fighter, RAF