Category: camouflage

• Hawker Hurricane Mk II – Part Four – The Next Grievous Error

  

  Well, I added one today. The next foolish error. The one that separates the men from the boys. And I know which side I’m on… I had masked the new Hawker Hurricane Mk II very well and I was ready to shoot the upper works. As it was a cold day. I selected lacquer thinner…

  Dick Stein

  August 29, 2018

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, British aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Painting, Uncategorized

  air compressor, camouflage scheme, Painting

• The Aisle Of The Darned

  

  Never mind the Isle Of The Damned or the Isle Of The Doomed – they are just comic book fiction. We have a real Aisle Of The Darned at my local hobby shop. From the start of it to the end, it is shelf after shelf of paint. No-one I know has ever successfully traversed…

  Dick Stein

  August 25, 2018

  Acrylic, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Enamel, Hobby Shops, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  finishing, Hobby shop, paint

• 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