Category: History

• Cessna UC-78A – Part One – A Cat Becomes A Bird

  

  I’ve written before about the RCAF’s aircraft nomenclature and how it can be alternately logical and puzzling. I’m not sure if this is because it is an armed service or an armed service run by Ottawa… In any case, I leaped upon the KP model of the USAAF Cessna UC-78A Bobcat when it showed on…

  Dick Stein

  February 19, 2021

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Civil aircraft, Colour Schemes, History, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Cessna, RCAF, trainer

• Stand And Deliver!

  

  Yes, I’ll confess…I’ve always wanted to be in a self-employed business that involves a fast horse, a black mask, and a brace of pistols. The only thing that has prevented me starting one up is the need to decide upon a suitable name. I was toying with ” Captain Fatuous ” but the family disapproved……

  Dick Stein

  November 11, 2020

  1:72 scale, design, History, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Aifix, nostalgia, plastic kits, stands

• Someone, Somewhere…

  

  There are statistics freaks all over the world – my weblog columns occasionally attract the attention of them when I mention some chart or set of tables. My email clogs for a week with mathematical proof of the existence of carrots. I am philosophical about it – it’s just email and somewhere somebody has to…

  Dick Stein

  October 16, 2020

  History, Miniature Philosophy, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  kit numbers, model makers, statistics