Category: Museums

• Hawker Sea Hawk – Part Three – All Ready, Murphy.

  

  ” Well, she’s ready for delivery, Murphy. I’ve rung up Air World and they’ll be sending a low loader to get it. Don’t fold them wings up until it gets here, in case they won’t unfold again. And you might unbolt the rockets for the trip – don’t want ’em getting loose on the highway.…

  Dick Stein

  February 3, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Dioramas, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, Museums, Scale Models, Stein’s Air World, Workshop

  Ess Bend Aviation, Hawker Sea Hawk, Indian Navy

• Hawker Seahawk – Part Two – Ess Bend Aviation

  

  Now that the contract for refurbishing aircraft has been let out to Ess bend Aviation in Alberta, Stein’s Air World can concentrate upon preparing museum displays rather than spreading an aircraft over an entire shop for years. This is what happens when in-house restoration is undertaken. Here are a couple of pictures of the work…

  Dick Stein

  February 3, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Israeli aircraft, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, Museums, Scale Models, Stein’s Air World, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Ess Bend Aviation, Hawker Sea Hawk, Stein’s Air World

• Airfix Mosquito – Part Four – Thank You, Mike Grant

  

  Mike Grant had been a pioneer where I wished to go and I was fortunate to discover an magazine article he wrote – sponsored by Airfix – that dealt with exactly the aircraft I was working on. The story was illustrated with a lot of good coloured photos and Mike had gone into the scale…

  Dick Stein

  February 1, 2020

  1:72 scale, Collecting, Colour Schemes, Decals, Dioramas, Israeli aircraft, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, Museums, Scale Models, Stein’s Air World

  Airfix, De Havilland Mosquito, Stein’s Air World

• The Scale Modelling Culture

  

  Or ” How I learned to cut throats on a green plastic mat “. As scale model builders we mess with the ideas of popular culture all the time. The vast majority of the population who have never built anything smaller than an IKEA bookshelf have no idea what closely focusing on a fresh kit…

  Dick Stein

  January 31, 2020

  finances, Miniature Philosophy, Museums, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Workshop

  culture, model builders, Painting

• Airfix Mosquito – Part Three – Look Quickly

  

  I suggest that you look quickly at the IAF Mosquito in today’s illustrations – it may be the last time that you will see it in such a clean condition. It is just about to be wheeled out onto the hardstand at Schmattarim Air Base to join the museum of aircraft that have been in…

  Dick Stein

  January 28, 2020

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Israeli aircraft, Model Airplane, Museums, Scale Models

  De Havilland Mosquito, IAF, Schmattarim

• If You Build A Barber Shop, They Will Comb…

  

  If you wish to give yourself a treat – for about $ 40 a throw – go down to the hobby shop and look at the OO/HO building kits. You’ll find them for British, North American, and European buildings, and there is hardly anything that you can imagine that cannot be bought. If you stray…

  Dick Stein

  January 20, 2020

  Dioramas, Miniature Philosophy, Modelling exhibitions, Museums, Organisation, research, Scale Model Buildings, Uncategorized, Utility Models, Workshop

  model town, scratchbuilding, SIngapore

• De Havilland Vampire T.11 – Part Four – Baked Bat

  

  It’s not your eyes. Your eyes are fine. It’s not your computer. You need not re-calibrate it. The scale model Vampire T.11 really looks like that. And its counterpart in the Negev does too. The desert sun has very little air shade, no ground shade, and winds that blast from all directions. The paint that…

  Dick Stein

  January 13, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Museums, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Weathering

  canopy, De Havilland Vampire, Negev, Schmatterim

• Blackburn Buccaneer – Part Five – The Exhibit

  

  You may wonder how Stein’s Air World museum can afford to get all these wonderful airplanes for display. The answer is simple; they are gifts given in charity. The new Blackburn Buccaneer Mk 1 seen here is just such a one. It was donated by the Gentleman of the Cloth. Of course, it’s not all…

  Dick Stein

  October 30, 2019

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Museums, Painting, Scale Models, Stein’s Air World

  Blackburn, Buccaneer, museum, prototype, Stein’s Air World

• Stein’s Air World – We’re Hiring Now

  

  I have been called to account by the Commitee of Scale Righteousness for the paint jobs on the aircraft that appear in Stein’s Air World. Several of the senior members have pointed out that there are glaring inconsistencies in the shade, hue, intensity, and reflectance of the various aircraft. I have been told that there…

  Dick Stein

  October 20, 2019

  1:72 scale, Collecting, Colour Schemes, Decals, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Museums, Painting, Stein’s Air World, Uncategorized

  Air World Museum, finances, museum, paint

• McDonnell Banshee – Part Four – Ready For The Canadian Hall, Eh?

  

  The decals have gone on the RCN Banshee and it is ready for the display hall of Canadian service aircraft. The suspect upper grey is still on it and sealed in with varnish. I am actually delighted with the thing – and it is rather a massive fighter compared with some of the Korean War…

  Dick Stein

  October 4, 2019

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Museums, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Air World Museum, Mcdonnell Banshee, RCN