Category: Scale Model Buildings

• 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

• Donny’s House

  

  When I went to play at Donny’s house I made sure that I went to the bathroom at home first. Even if I didn’t have to go just then. It wasn’t a problem with dirty toilets – not that at all. That was a school problem, but as long as you didn’t need to do…

  Dick Stein

  February 24, 2019

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

  card models, Wet Dog Regional

• Andrichuk’s House

  

  Al’s retired and Vera knows it – because he is hanging around the house all day. Not that he does much to make it look better – he’s content that it had a coat of paint on the trim when he built it and doesn’t see where he needs to go mad with a paintbrush…

  Dick Stein

  February 23, 2019

  1:72 scale, Modelling materials, Scale Model Buildings, Scale Models, Wet Dog Regional Airport

  card models, frugality, retirement, Wet Dog Regional

• Frugal Week Not Finished

  

  Just when you thought the opera was over… I was idly browsing for OO scale building kits on the internet with the specific of Canadian outline. This sounds like a hiding to nothing, as OO is a British size and most of their card kits and other model supplies are resolutely centred on the their…

  Dick Stein

  February 21, 2019

  1:72 scale, card models, Dioramas, Model trains, Modelling materials, Scale Model Buildings, Uncategorized

  Canada, card structures, frugality, Triang

• 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

• How Much Movement Do You Need To Be Alive?

  

  If you are lichen…not a lot. Then again, you’ll never get to see much of the world on your holidays. You’ll end up being jealous of the toadstools and mushrooms…because they are such fungis…* The question is how much action do you need to have in your Little World to make it come alive –…

  Dick Stein

  February 11, 2019

  1:72 scale, Dioramas, Doll Houses, Miniature Philosophy, Modelling materials, Scale Model Buildings, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  money, planning, pleasure, realism, space, time

• 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

• A New Superhero For The DC Or Marvel Universe

  

  I don’t know which comic book empire is which, but I can recognise super-talent when I see it. I’m even more delighted to be able to report that it has surfaced in one of my favourite people – me. Captain Frugal. Nicknamed Cheap John. One afternoon I decided to get down to it and build…

  Dick Stein

  December 27, 2018

  1:72 scale, Dioramas, Doll Houses, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Model Buildings, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Wet Dog Regional Airport

  foamcore, frugality, scratchbuilt structures, Wet Dog Regional

• The Ten Dollar Model

  

  This time we step up the pace a little with double the amount of money in our hand. Ten bucks is a big piece of change – if you add another dollar you can buy a pint of beer in a trendy hotel. So do not disrespect the tenner. It can also buy you a…

  Dick Stein

  December 25, 2018

  Miniature Philosophy, Modelling materials, Scale Model Buildings, Uncategorized, Workshop

  art stores, card structures, inkjet printing, newsagencies, trees

• The Airport Under The Tree

  

  Now that we are approaching Christmas – warily – it is time to put up the tree with the traditional toy train set circling underneath it. But for those of us who build different little worlds we have some alternative suggestions: a. Santa’s Little Airport. CIrcular runway and an airliner with a severe right bank…

  Dick Stein

  December 14, 2018

  Doll Houses, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Model cars, Model trains, Scale Model Buildings, Scale Models, Toys, Uncategorized

  bar and bawdy house, Christmas, trees