Category: Model building club

• The Annual Gluefest Finished Cheerfully

  

  And not a sticky fingerprint on any of the plastic parts. At least not on the competition entries. It was my first little venture into showing a plastic model and I played it safe – I just put it into the general club display on the table and didn’t ask for any judgement. There may…

  Dick Stein

  June 14, 2019

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Dioramas, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, Model building club, Modelling exhibitions, RCAF Wet Dog, Tabletop Photography, Uncategorized

  plastic models, scale model show, WASMEX

• Fairchild Flying Boxcar – Part Two – The Silver Carcase

  

  The Fairchild Flying Boxcar model is proceeding apace, but the pace is slow. This is a deliberate decision as I am using it as my weekly Men’s Shed project. This means I do most of the work on it in the Tuesday 9:00 to 12:30 time slot when I can attend the modelling club. So…

  Dick Stein

  April 26, 2019

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Military models, Model Airplane, Model building club, Painting, RCAF Wet Dog, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  cargo, Fairchild, Plastic Modelling Club, RCAF

• ” It’s Only A 1:72 Model…”

  

  The word to look at in the title is ” only ”  – and I would look at it askance, if I were you… I’ve noticed that there can be quite some little hierarchy in the scale model building fraternity – based upon a number of factors: a. Years spent doing the hobby. This is…

  Dick Stein

  April 19, 2019

  1:72 scale, Dioramas, finances, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Model building club, Model ships, Scale Models, South African aircraft, subassembly, Uncategorized

  complexity, pissing contest, scale, size

• A Different Rhythm At The Workbench

  

  What strange creatures we are. When working for a living there were times when I could not get away from my work station fast enough at the end of the day. Now that I’m retired, I can’t wait to get to it. And there are weeks when I seem to work at it as if…

  Dick Stein

  April 1, 2019

  1:72 scale, card models, finances, Miniature Philosophy, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, Model building club, Scale Models, Tabletop Photography, Uncategorized, Workshop

  frugality, hobby time, production, rhythm, variety

• The Shed Of Men

  

  Of old men. Cranky old men. Building plastic models. Growling at each other. Venting unpleasant political opinions. Being incorrect, on every level. Cursing, swearing, reviling, jeering, and moaning at each other. And drinking coffee and eating cake. And loving it. Men who have gotten past the age of work and have reached the age of…

  Dick Stein

  March 18, 2019

  Miniature Philosophy, Model building club, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Mens Shed, Plastic Modelling Club, retirement

• Bell Model 47 – Part Three – The Bubble

  

  Well, that was a surprise. I opened the Italeri box one morning at the modelling club and the helicopter landed, finished, on my studio table at 4:30 PM next day. And there was time in between working on it to put the camouflage colours on the CH-147 Chinook. I’ve no idea what this indicates in…

  Dick Stein

  February 17, 2019

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, helicopter, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Model building club, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Bell Model 47, helicopter, perspex

• Macchi MC 205 Veltro – Part Two – There We Was…

  

  Well, Poo…I realised today that I published Part Four before Part Two and Part Three. You must have gotten a disjointed view of the process. Forgive me and read on today and tomorrow – you’ll get the rest of the story. Blame early mornings…   There we was at the Men’s Shed session of the…

  Dick Stein

  February 1, 2019

  1:72 scale, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Italian aircraft, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Model building club, Modelling materials, Painting, Scale Models

  Azure Blue, Macchi MC 205, Mens Shed