Category: helicopter

• Boeing Vertol CH 147 Chinook – Part Four – The Blue Mask Of Courage

  

  No, you haven’t wandered into a Marvel comic – the blue mask of courage does not fight crime. It covers things up…rather like a bottled version of a parliamentary enquiry. Except it smells better. Youve read here of my efforts to mask clear canopies on 1:72 scale aircraft by various means; tape squares, Humbrol rubber…

  Dick Stein

  February 10, 2019

  1:72 scale, airliner, camouflage, Colour Schemes, helicopter, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Painting, Tools

  Boeing-Vertol, GSI Creos, Masking

• Boeing-Vertol CH 147F Chinook – Part Two – You Want What?

  

  I was taken aback. Normally the makers of plastic models do not expect you to saw them apart as soon as you open the box. Italeri did, though…and it was in a good cause. ‘Cause the Boeing company had made drastic changes to the sides of their Chinook helicopter and Italeri had to follow on.…

  Dick Stein

  February 8, 2019

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, helicopter, Model Airplane, subassembly, Uncategorized

  Boeing-Vertol, Canada, helicopter

• Boeing-Vertol CH 147F Chinook – Part One – The Flying Bread Box

  

  Okay, okay, I know. But that was what it looked like when I opened the box. It is the first of the modern twin-rotor helicopters I’ve encountered and I had no idea what the size of it was going to be. This is the second part of my fee-for-service I earned taking portraits and it…

  Dick Stein

  February 7, 2019

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, helicopter, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Boeing-Vertol, Canada, helicopter