Category: Russian models

• Ryan Spirit Of St. Louis – Part One – Nyet, Tovarich…

  

  Is not could be Spirit of Amerikan town. Is Spirit of Leningrad. First solos transatlantic airplane fly from Soviet home of revolutionary peoples but capitalistic newspapers disguise this. Soviet union always first in everything. Well, not quite first with this model. We get mould from FROG in decadent England and hero workers of Soviet Union…

  Dick Stein

  February 22, 2021

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Model Airplane, research, Russian models, Soviet aircraft, Stein’s Air World

  Atlantic, Lindberg, solo

• Martin Maryland – Part Three – SAAFies Again

  

  Remember the SAAF captured Junkers 52 that I made a couple of years ago? Well now it has a companion in the Desert Air Force. K for Kaffir – the Martin 167 Maryland of the South African Air Force. A lot of the SAAAF Marylands were camouflaged with middle stone and darker brown, but I…

  Dick Stein

  February 2, 2021

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, American aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Decals, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Russian models, Scale Models

  Eastern Express, Martin bomber, SAAF

• Martin Maryland – Part Two – FROG Spawn

  

  Well, I wasn’t wrong about the origin of the model – but I noted some interesting features on the sprue trees. Some were perfect and some were not. A Forrest Gump box of chocolates, indeed. The fuselage and wings are wonderful. The tail plane likewise. The design features a set of long tabs that lock…

  Dick Stein

  January 31, 2021

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, design, Model Airplane, Russian models, Scale Models, subassembly

  design, Eastern Express, Martin bomber, moulding

• Martin Maryland – Part One – Circling The Shelf

  

  You know that thing – when you visit a hobby shop on a number of occasions and pass the same model on the shelf each time. And you look at it and heft it and put it back for some reason. Then one day you run out of reasons… This kit of a Maryland is…

  Dick Stein

  January 30, 2021

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Decals, Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Russian models, Scale Models

  Eastern Express, Martin bomber, Russian model kit

• Why Did You Want To Build That One?

  

  If someone looks at your newly-completed scale model and asks you that question, you can give a good, cogent answer. If you ask the question of yourself, you are in trouble. If you cannot come up with an answer…you’re sunk. Or are you? There are some things that you cannot see clearly – some things…

  Dick Stein

  July 11, 2020

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Czech models, finances, German aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Polish models, Russian models, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  childhood, kit choices, memories, mistakes

• Tupolev SB2 – Part Four – ” Red Is The Colour…”

  

  ” Of my true love’s national aircraft recognition insignia in the morning, as I rise…” This was an aviation folk song that Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie tried to promote in the 1930’s but it never really got off the ground, despite a headwind. Even when they offered to strike every Friday and bus in…

  Dick Stein

  February 15, 2020

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Decals, Model Airplane, Painting, Russian models, Scale Models, Soviet aircraft, Uncategorized

  insignia, Spanish plane, Tupolev bomber

• Tupolev SB2 – Part Three – The Gallows…

  

  I never realised how much my painting stand looked like a gallows tree until I hung the Tupolev SB2 on it for undercoating and colour coats. Didn’t mean to be quite so morbid… But the fact that the SB2 was suspended there and took its paint so well pointed out the basic utility of the…

  Dick Stein

  February 14, 2020

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Painting, Russian models, Soviet aircraft, Tools, Workshop

  gallows, Painting, Tupolev bomber, workshop jig

• Tupolev SB2 – Part Two – In Russia Model Make You

  

  If I had been in any doubt looking at the crude plastic on the sprue runners, it was dispelled when I got to the ” Made In USSR ” stamped into the plastic. I was relieved. Up until that moment I had been worried that this kit was an elaborate practical joke and that Alan…

  Dick Stein

  February 13, 2020

  1:72 scale, Model Airplane, Painting, Russian models, Scale Models, Soviet aircraft, subassembly

  Russian, Soviet model

• Tupolev SB2 – Part One – Katyuska

  

  I was on tenterhooks when my daughter came back from Japan recently – I had tasked her with getting me a nice 1:72 model aircraft kit that we couldn’t get here in Australia. She obliged by searching out both a major and a minor hobby shop in Tokyo and bringing back 4 models – all…

  Dick Stein

  February 12, 2020

  1:72 scale, Hobby Shops, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Russian models, Scale Models, Soviet aircraft, Utility Models

  Leonardo’s, Novo, Soviet model

• Following The Instructions…

  

  To your doom. I’ve written before about the Czech, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, and Chinese instruction sheets that we get with our kits. I won’t repeat the sly digs at the Chinglish, Czechlish, or other dialects involved – suffice it to say that we should be grateful for the kit and not be such English language…

  Dick Stein

  October 5, 2019

  1:72 scale, Chinese models, Czech models, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Organisation, Polish models, research, Russian models, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  colour call-outs, instruction sheets