Category: Colour Schemes

• 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 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 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

• Who Do You Believe?

  

  Not about religion or viruses or the economy. These things cannot be determined by debate or belief – they just have to be fought over with artillery. I mean who do you believe about paint colours? Specifically, the paint colours printed on call-out sheets in model kits. Every kit has something that pretends to dictate…

  Dick Stein

  March 25, 2020

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Enamel, Lacquer, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Painting, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  choice, colour, decision, paint, range

• Ilyushin Il-10 – Part Four – The Beast Built

  

  Well, another Mr. Craft aircraft is built. While not as precise as the Fairey Fulmar, the Il-10 has come out well on the side of good. Whatever the makers intended has been achieved. Other reports of this ex-KS kit have pointed out the crudities of the armament, the haphazard fit of the canopy and the…

  Dick Stein

  March 21, 2020

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Polish models, Soviet aircraft

  Hungary, Ilyushin, Uprising

• Ilyushin Il-10 – Part Three – Sleeker Than You’d Think

  

  My stable of Soviet fighter planes of WW 2 is very small – one Yak and one Lavotchkin. Not even a MiG yet. But they all seem to share a similar look – the look of fighters that have been developed by people who don’t quite know what the shape should be. Oh, they are…

  Dick Stein

  March 20, 2020

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, Polish models, Scale Models, Soviet aircraft

  Hungarian, Ilyushin, Soviet

• Wait. What?

  

  I have just been given a conflicting story and am in the process of processing it. Pardon the odd sounds coming from my brain. Some of them are gas and some of them are suspicion. The basic problem surfaced a few months ago when I went to my local hobby shop to get another bottle…

  Dick Stein

  March 17, 2020

  Colour Schemes, Hobby Shops, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Painting, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Dullcote, Lacquer, marketing, shortages, Testors

• 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

• Please Note, Facebook Accounting Department

  

  Guys and gals…I do not do this for money. I do not build model aircraft for money. Nor do I write about them for it, nor take photos of them for it. I do not deny that I find money useful, and would like more of it to play around with, but I realise that…

  Dick Stein

  March 11, 2020

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, finances, Japanese aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized, writing

  Facebook advertising, paid boosterism, weblog writing