Category: research

• Macchi C.200 Saetta – Part Four – Il Co-Belligerante

  

  Well, it’s finished. The kit that started out as just a whim has turned out to be a delight. I solved a problem for myself with the livery and found a way to enjoy future aircraft building. The final verdict is in on part of the finishing system, and Hobby Boss have acquitted themselves magnificently…

  Dick Stein

  August 12, 2018

  1:72 scale, Chinese models, Colour Schemes, Italian aircraft, Model Airplane, Painting, research

  cobelligerante, fighter, Hobby Boss, Italian, Macchi

• Macchi MC.200 Saetta – Part One – The Lawyers Called, Mr Chang.

  

  I can see that there has been a phone call from Italy. Hobby Boss has put out their 1:72 model of the Macchi MC-200 Saetta fighter plane with no reference to ” Macchi ” on the box. It is referred to only as ” Italian ” and ” Saetta “. It’s the same story as…

  Dick Stein

  August 9, 2018

  1:72 scale, Box Art, Chinese models, Italian aircraft, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models, Stein’s Air World

  design, Hobby Boss, Italian, licensing, Macchi

• Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke – Part Three – Are We Hobbyists Or Detectives?

  

  I bought the Avia book about Canadian aircraft of WW2 on a whim at Hylands Bookstore in Melbourne earlier in the year. Hylands is a peripatetic purveyor of printed matter – I have been to 4 of their premises in the CBD of Melbourne over the decades and each time it has been a unique…

  Dick Stein

  August 1, 2018

  1:72 scale, Books, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Avia press, bookshops, Hylands, internet, research

• The Big Green Things Made Of Wood

  

  You know. Branches, trunks, roots, bird nests. Those things that stand there in front of the forest and obscure it. Whaddaya call ’em…starts with a ” T “. I’ll think of it in a minute… Well modelling can be like that. You do all the research in the world – spend days on the internet…

  Dick Stein

  July 23, 2018

  American aircraft, Colour Schemes, Hobby Shops, Model Airplane, Painting, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  chromate paint, forests, spray cans, trees