Category: RCAF Wet Dog

• Standin’ On The Tarmac – Part Five – The Light ‘O The Sun

  

  Remember when I said I got it wrong with my tabletop picture – by using more than one light source? Well, so I did, but that is not completely accurate. I got it wrong by using two equal light sources. I was that close to the proper thing, if only I had realised it. Go outside. Look…

  Dick Stein

  April 14, 2019

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, RCAF Wet Dog, Scale Models, Tabletop Photography, Uncategorized

  colour temperature, sunshine, white balance

• Standin’ On The Tarmac – Part One – The Wrong Stuff

  

  Watchin’ all the birds roll by…dum de dum dum. Should put that to music – might make a good pop song. Standin’ on a scale model tarmac, runway, racetrack, street, or hardstand is the subject of this series of essays. If you are repulsed by mathematics, just look at the pretty pictures. The Little Studio…

  Dick Stein

  April 10, 2019

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Dioramas, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, RCAF Wet Dog, Scale Model Buildings, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  model air fields, Tabletop Photography

• The New Direction Is Direction-finding

  

  Idly surfing the net recently I noted that the RCAF station that I have taken as my inspiration was, for quite some time, a radar early warning facility as well as a training air base. This continued right through the period of time that my model layout depicts. I couldn’t resist the temptation to use…

  Dick Stein

  April 5, 2019

  1:72 scale, card models, Dioramas, Modelling materials, RCAF Wet Dog, Scale Model Buildings, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Wet Dog Regional Airport

  Pinetree Line, radar, RCAF Wet Dog, Wet Dog Regional

• Grumman Duck – Part One – The Civil Mould

  

  I have a suspicion that the Airfix Grumman Duck in 1:72 scale is an older mould – the raised rivet lines. Perhaps a Matchbox kit re-issued. I also find that as I am an older modeller – it doesn’t bother me in the slightest. That is the fine legacy of being able to build the…

  Dick Stein

  March 18, 2019

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Civil aircraft, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Painting, RCAF Wet Dog, Scale Models

  Airfix, bushplane, Canada, Grumman Duck

• North American Mustang I – Part Five – A Dappled Horse

  

  Well, the Mustang is on charge and will be conveyed to RCAF Wet Dog in a day or so. It is as fresh as many coats of paint and varnish can make it – the decision to begin weathering the models has been postponed for a few months. The final result of this experimental build…

  Dick Stein

  March 14, 2019

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, camouflage, Chinese models, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, RCAF Wet Dog, Scale Models, Weathering

  Hobby Boss, Mustang, RAF

• Frugal Week Big Finish

  

  The week came to an end on a good note – yet another cereal-box building for a model airfield is complete – making a total of 7 this week – 4 for RCAF Wet Dog and 3 for Wet Dog Regional Airport. This one derives from a Scale Model Scenery download kit – it started as…

  Dick Stein

  February 20, 2019

  1:72 scale, Block Models, Canadian aircraft, card models, Dioramas, Modelling materials, RCAF Wet Dog, Wet Dog Regional Airport

  card structures, frugality, RCAF Wet Dog, Wet Dog Regional

• The House Of Cards

  

  Or ” How I Learned To Glue My Fingers Together Blindfolded “. I have been engaged in building a card model from a Superquick kit. This is a bus depot that can moonlight as an airplane hangar. The makers even provide spare signage with an aviation theme. The kit is largely die-cut. Most of the…

  Dick Stein

  February 18, 2019

  1:72 scale, Doll Houses, Miniature photography, Modelling materials, RCAF Wet Dog, Scale Model Buildings, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Wet Dog Regional Airport

  Air Station, card models, Superquick

• Hut, Hut, Hut…

  

  All three huts, in fact, destined for either the radar station at Wet Dog Regional or the ablutions block at RCAF Wet Dog – wherever they will do the most good. They are the first fruits of Frugal Days – the week in which I do not build an expensive plastic kit, but rather turn…

  Dick Stein

  February 13, 2019

  1:72 scale, Civil aircraft, Dioramas, Military models, Modelling materials, RCAF Wet Dog, Wet Dog Regional Airport

  card models, frugality, RCAF Wet Dog, Wet Dog Regional

• Your Official Licence To Read

  

  A recent look at a modelling forum site was really horrifying…not because the scale models were bad, or because the people were painful, but because the procedure to send them any pictures of your models was so complex as to defy description. Protocols and electronic permissions to the walls… We are not generally in this…

  Dick Stein

  December 31, 2018

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Model Airplane, RCAF Wet Dog, research, Scale Model Buildings, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  computer images, copyright, posting protocols

• When The World Gives You Lemons

  

  Make a lemon meringue pie. SImple. This meme business is getting tame… When the world gives you MDF board, Foamcore sheets, and old pieces of matt board you have more of a challenge. The thing to realise about it is that the ingredients essentially cost pennies and anything you do with them raises the value…

  Dick Stein

  November 18, 2018

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Dioramas, Miniature Philosophy, Modelling materials, RCAF Wet Dog, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  RCAF Wet Dog, scratchbuilt structures, structures