Category: Chinese aircraft

• The Big Local Scale Model Exhibition – Part Five – The Quest For Novelty

  

  One of the charms for me when I attend the doll-house ladies’ exhibition, or that of the model railway enthusiasts – is the novelty of the models and exhibits. I preserve this freshness by attending only one of these per year – one year it will be the doll-houses and next the trains. Every time…

  Dick Stein

  May 6, 2022

  1:72 scale, Chinese aircraft, Collecting, Czech models, Dioramas, Doll Houses, Japanese aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling exhibitions, Polish models, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  airfields, dollhouses, model exhibition, model railways, novelty

• Yak 3 – Part Four _ Speed Is As Speed Does

  

  When you are not bending up connecting rods from brass PE sheets for a 1/72 kit, it seems to go a lot faster in the construction. Not as liable to win Best-of-Show at the Anorak Expo, but you have to be realistic. And Hobby Boss are the most realistic moulders I know. The Yak 3…

  Dick Stein

  March 4, 2022

  1:72 scale, camouflage, Chinese aircraft, Colour Schemes, design, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, research, Scale Models, Soviet aircraft, Uncategorized

  diorama, Painting, thinners

• My New Air Friend

  

  I have had a number of air friends in the past; The RCAF, the IDF, and the Ruritanian Royal Army Air Force amongst others. They feature largely in my collection, and more examples of aircraft will be added as the years go by. But I have a new friend, and it looks like I’ll be…

  Dick Stein

  November 1, 2021

  1:72 scale, Chinese aircraft, Collecting, Colour Schemes, Decals, History, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Swuping Air Army, Uncategorized

  China, KMT, Nationalists