Category: Soviet aircraft

• 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

• Douglas Havoc – Part Eight – The Faulty Gear

  

  Looks like 42547 will be sitting for a bit longer on the hardstand at RCAF WET DOG. The Russian ferry pilot has complained about the front landing gear strut – and we can’t say we disagree with him. It has been put on the service sheet for a rebuild. The front gear leg does indeed…

  Dick Stein

  November 9, 2019

  1:72 scale, Model Airplane, RCAF Wet Dog, Scale Models, Soviet aircraft, Workshop

  ALSIB, convoy, Douglas Havoc, tricycle landing gear

• Douglas A-20 Havoc – Part Seven – The Work Of Art

  

  Masking tape is one of the few artistic mediums overlooked in the catalogues of the famous galleries. Yet it is the chosen vehicle of expression for so many of us. And it is such  a transient thing – here one hour and stripped off and thrown in the trash the next. Truly a metaphor for…

  Dick Stein

  November 9, 2019

  1:72 scale, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Soviet aircraft, Uncategorized, Workshop

  ALSIB, Douglas Havoc, Mr. Color, olive drab

• Douglas A-20 Havoc – Part Three – Subassembly Time

  

  The Douglas Havoc by MPM models ( are they the same as Special Hobby? I’ll have to Czech up on that…) is old school in that it is all injection moulding – no resin or brass to confuse the issue. I welcome this but will have to do some cheap detailing in the cockpit if…

  Dick Stein

  November 4, 2019

  1:72 scale, Czech models, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, Soviet aircraft, subassembly, Workshop

  Douglas Havoc, fit, GSI Creos, putty, subassemblies

• Douglas A-20 Havoc – Part One – Search The Sprue

  

  I’m starting to know how to play the game – at least recognising some of the new rules. It’s changed since the 1960’s… Back then, plastic model kits gave you only a very few choices – the AMT 3-in-1 cars had extra parts that you could glue onto them to make racing cars or customs.…

  Dick Stein

  November 3, 2019

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Czech models, Decals, Model Airplane, RCAF Wet Dog, Soviet aircraft

  bomber, Czech models, Douglas Havoc

• I Don’t Think I’m Working Hard Enough At Being Lazy

  

  I mean, procrastination starts with ” pro ” and you’ve gotta be dedicated for that, right? I’m typing this because there is a backlog in the Little Workshop – but it is a deliberate thing. I’ve been working on the A-20 Havoc, several P-39’s and a B-25 Mitchell. They’ve all got to the undercoat stage…

  Dick Stein

  October 11, 2019

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Dioramas, Figure modelling, Model Airplane, Modelling exhibitions, Painting, RCAF Wet Dog, Soviet aircraft, Uncategorized

  Alaska, Alberta, Lend-Lease, RCAF, USAAF

• Bell P-39 Airacobra – Part Two – The Sprues Goose

  

  There was never going to be a great deal of desperate basic modelling in the construction of two P-39’s from Hobby Boss kits from the outset. And this was just what made the idea so appealing. I know the kit to be a good one and the ease of construction is just a bonus. Doing…

  Dick Stein

  August 10, 2019

  1:72 scale, Chinese models, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Soviet aircraft, subassembly

  airbrushing, Bell Airacobra, Hobby Boss

• Bell P-39 Airacobra – Part One – The Soviet Twins

  

  For the first time ever I am doing a group build. Not an exercise where I’m going to be a member of a group of modellers, but one where I make a group of models. Related items, if you will, and all made at the same time. They are being made for a purpose –…

  Dick Stein

  August 9, 2019

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Painting, RCAF Wet Dog, Soviet aircraft, Uncategorized

  Bell Airacobra, RCAF Wet Dog, Soviet

• Sandown Park 2019 – Part Five – A Red Star Track

  

  When Red StarTrack deliver…you sign for it or else… This year’s exhibition pointed out something to me – the quantum shift in the scale modelling word from US and UK manufacture of plastic kits to makers behind the old Iron or Bamboo Curtains. With the moulding going to areas of former Soviet influence there are…

  Dick Stein

  June 23, 2019

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Modelling exhibitions, Painting, Russian models, Soviet aircraft, Uncategorized

  Russian model, Sandown Park, Soviet model