Category: Czech models

• Vega PV-2 Harpoon – Part Four – The Carioca Killer

  

  Admire the pictures, Children – they are made with the new focus-stacking technique learned from YouTube. Nearly every part of the 1:72 aircraft in perfect focus . The technique is so simple as to be laughable. I secure the model under constant lighting ( 2 IKEA desk lamps ) and focus upon the closest part.…

  Dick Stein

  September 24, 2020

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

  anti-submarine, Brazil, dental tools, Harpoon, Painting

• Vega PV-2 Harpoon – Part Three – Underwear

  

  Under where did you want me to spray? I am getting good value out of my Mr. Hobby Procom single-action spray gun – the one I bought with funds raised by selling off unwanted photo gear. The gun is a big chunky thing with just one giant adjusting knob and an equally large finger button.…

  Dick Stein

  September 23, 2020

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Lacquer, Masking, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  Harpoon, Masking, Mr. Hobby, Painting, undercoat

• Vega PV-2 Harpoon – Part Two – The Subassemblies

  

  Or, in the case of the PV-2…the sub-hunter assemblies. Because remember that this patrol bomber in the hands of the US Navy and the Brazilian Air Force did sink U-boats. And anything else in the small ship line that it encountered. For an airliner it made a pretty mean warplane. The interior is SMS lacquer…

  Dick Stein

  September 21, 2020

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

  Harpoon, subassemblies

• Vega PV-2 Harpoon – Part One – The Mistaken Assumption

  

  I am subject to misapprehensions from time to time. They generally don’t result in disasters, but they can mean that I miss out on good things. I can remember several occasions as a young man when I did not read the signals correctly and passed lonely Valentine’s Days. It all worked out perfectly in the…

  Dick Stein

  September 21, 2020

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Resin, Scale Models

  Brazil, Decals, Harpoon, Lockheed, Vega

• Seversky P-35 – Part One – Silver Wings

  

  The only reason I bought this Spcial Hobby 1:72 Seversky P-35  is that it can be finished in a gloss silver finish to sit alongside the Douglas B-18 Bolo reconnaissance plne that has just been completed. The Mr. Color Super metallic finish of that big ship is so nice I decided to get another pot…

  Dick Stein

  September 3, 2020

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Decals, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Inter-war aircraft, Seversky P-35, Special Hobby, USAAC

• Vickers Delta Mk III – Part Two – A Sensible Cockpit

  

  I wonder why the designers of the Vickers Delta Mk III kit in The Czech Republic resisted the temptation to put photo-etch brass and resin castings in the kit? Perhaps they relegated this on to the apprentice with instructions to make it simple. if so, I am grateful. The interior parts were sturdy enough to…

  Dick Stein

  August 23, 2020

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Czech models, design, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  Canadian, floatplane, Vickers

• Vickers Delta Mk III – Part One – One From the Book

  

  Never pass by a book on a shelf. This may make you a menace in the public library, but trust me that your modelling will improve. I found a copy of ” Canadian Aircraft Of WW II ” in the now-defunct Hylands bookshop in Melbourne. There were multiple copies of what must have been a…

  Dick Stein

  August 22, 2020

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Czech models, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models

  RCAF, Special Hobby, Vickers

• Brewster Bermuda – Part Eight – A Lovely Surprise

  

  Well, mustard gas is always a surprise anyway, but this experimental Brewster Bermuda adds a stylish note to it. Not sure if I’m proud to have made an experimental Canadian gas plane of it, but the other options weren’t all that much better. The new technique of masking off the greenhouse entirely and temporarily gluing…

  Dick Stein

  July 22, 2020

  1:72 scale, camouflage, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, RCAF Wet Dog, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Brewster Bermuda, RCAF Wet Dog, Suffield

• Brewster Buccaneer – Part Two – It Fits!

  

  Those two glorious words… The interior for the Brewster Buccaneer is a complex thing – Special Hobby have made use of tiny little injected pieces as well as the resin and PE and it took a day and a halve to finish the flight deck. But I have to give the Czechs credit where it…

  Dick Stein

  July 15, 2020

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

  Brewster, Buccaneer, Czech models, interiror

• Brewster Buccaneer – Part One – ” On The Sides Of Our Buccin’ Heads…”

  

  The classic answer to the question of where are our Buccaneers… Now that we have that out of the way decorum can return. The Special Hobby 1:72 Brewster Buccaneer was the result of doing what I told myself I would not do; go to the Post -Christmas sales. To be fair, the sales came to…

  Dick Stein

  July 14, 2020

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Czech models, finances, Hobby Shops, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models

  Brewster, discount, Special Hobby, US Navy