Category: Light plane

• Piper J3 – Part One -The Household Word

  

  Hoover. Not Herbert, you herbert. Hoover like in vacuum cleaner. The brand name. Except, in England it isn’t a brand name – it’s the name of a class of product – the vacuum cleaner. People don’t vacuum the house, they hoover it. Losing that capital letter was the greatest piece of industrial and advertising good…

  Dick Stein

  October 11, 2021

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

  Civil aircraft, Light plane, Piper

• Junkers F.13 – Part Three – A Tail Of A City

  

  The original tail of the F.13 is a beauty – looks like a bird’s plumage made in tin…very reminiscent of a WW1 design. But when the City Of Prince George was delivered it had a very much more modern and conventional fin with a balanced rudder. Fortunately this sort of model was also made by…

  Dick Stein

  August 11, 2021

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, design, Light plane, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, research, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  aluminium, floatplane, Junkers, tail

• In The Mood

  

  What kind of a modeller are you? I don’t mean are you old or young, fat or slim, etc. I mean, are you the sort who breeze into a room, throw a kit open on the table, and start weathering the scupper recovery ports with half your dinner jacket on…or do you need to psyche…

  Dick Stein

  August 5, 2021

  1:72 scale, Light plane, Miniature Philosophy, Organisation, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  building, rhythm, Workshop