Category: Museums

• 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

• The Classification List For Scale Models

  

  A recent comment regarding the 5-foot rule for judging scale models has prompted me to ponder on a possible classification list. No names, no pack drill – but I konw where a lot of mine sit on the scale. International museum-quality model – paid for by a government and regarded as a national treasure. Published…

  Dick Stein

  September 21, 2019

  Miniature Philosophy, Museums, Organisation, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Utility Models

  comparisons, lists, Scale Models

• Mitsubishi A5M-2 – Part Two – A Nipponese Quickie

  

  I’m not sure if I should leave money on the mantlepiece. I’ve just had my moment of pleasure and it’s all over. But I don’t regret it at all. Lets face it – building a Hobby Boss fighter plane is never going to be a case of long-term employment. Unless you pace yourself, you’ll find…

  Dick Stein

  May 9, 2019

  1:72 scale, Chinese models, Colour Schemes, Japanese aircraft, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Museums, Painting, research, Stein’s Air World

  Hobby Boss, Japanese aircraft, Mr. Color

• The Different Modellers

  

  I don’t mean the ones that come to the modelling club wearing fishnet stockings and the basque. That’s only to be expected from some English migrants…Just don’t make eye contact. No, I mean the modellers who elect to do something different with their hobby. Here’s some: a. The person who researches completely obscure equipment that…

  Dick Stein

  April 30, 2019

  Dioramas, Figure modelling, Military models, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Model cars, Model ships, Model trains, Modelling Club, Museums, Scale Model Buildings, Scale Models, Toys, Uncategorized

  battles, collections, planes, ships, trains

• The Museum Approach

  

  Go to your local museum – it doesn’t matter what type you choose; art, science, technology, cars, planes, boats, dolls. If you’ve got an interest, go spark it at the museum. While you are oohing and ahhing at the exhibits, look about you at the facilities. The architecture of a museum can be as interesting…

  Dick Stein

  November 27, 2018

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Australian aircraft, British aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Collecting, Colour Schemes, Dioramas, German aircraft, Italian aircraft, Japanese aircraft, Military models, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Museums, Scale Model Buildings

  Air World Museum, Stein’s Air World

• ” Well, I’d ‘A Done It Better…”

  

  Keep your ears open at the next exhibition you go to – you stand a fair chance of hearing that phrase passed back and forth amongst the strollers. And the funny thing is that it doesn’t matter what is being exhibited; paintings, scale models, photographs, pottery, or hot rod cars…Ida is still going to be…

  Dick Stein

  November 18, 2018

  Miniature Philosophy, Modelling exhibitions, Museums, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  art, critics, exhibitions, Scale Models

• Well, I’m Alright…But What About You?

  

  And the topic with which I treat today is the business of after – not before or during. Specifically, what are you going to do with the models that you build? I’m okay. I spent up on Billy bookcases from IKEA when they were cheap and I wasn’t and have enough space for my 1:18th…

  Dick Stein

  November 8, 2018

  1:72 scale, Collecting, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Museums, Organisation, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  collections, models, storage

• Hold The Weddin’!

  

  As Kinky Friedman would say. You’ll have to wait a bit longer to see the progress on the Convair 440. I’ve got something entirely different to show you today. I would like to introduce Ol’ Gutless. Ol’ Gutless is a gate guard for Stein’s Air World in Wet Dog, Alberta. She originally started life as…

  Dick Stein

  October 4, 2018

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Dioramas, Model Airplane, Museums, RCAF Wet Dog, Scale Models, Stein’s Air World

  Bell P-39, gate guard, Hughes Aerial Services, RCAF Wet Dog, Stein’s Air World

• Planning Permission Not Needed

  

  Did you realise that when you are the creator of your own Little World that you do not need to admit others to your counsel? That you can act as sole dictator and arbiter of all disputes? It is a sobering thought that can make anyone feel drunk. I experienced it recently while laying out…

  Dick Stein

  September 23, 2018

  1:72 scale, Dioramas, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Museums, Scale Model Buildings, Scale Models, Stein’s Air World, Uncategorized

  Air World Museum, buildings, planning

• Bristol Benheim Mk I – Part Four – The Museum Aircraft

  

  So why does a Bristol Blenheim Mk I bomber – a quintessentially early war RAF light bomber – show up in the Bomber Command hall of Stein’s Air World? I mean apart from the fact that there was a kit on the shelf at Stanbridge’s Hobby Shop and I had money in my pocket… If…

  Dick Stein

  August 24, 2018

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, British aircraft, camouflage, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Museums, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Air World Museum, Bristol, Canada, RAAF, RAF, RCAF