Category: Workshop

• Sitting Out The Setting…

  

  This is the most critical time for a modeller. The point where they display either admirable character and sensible judgement…or a complete lack of either quality. I do not invite judgement but I have bought my bus ticket out of town just in case. The coat of paint is touch-dry. Yet I know it is…

  Dick Stein

  May 3, 2020

  1:72 scale, adhesives, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Painting, Uncategorized, Workshop

  cement, glues, paint, patience, timing

• Grumman F9F-2 Panther – Part Four – The Simoom

  

  Or is that sirocco? Whichever, it is the hot dry wind that blows nobody any good, and it blew into my workshop the other day. Had I been smart, I would have closed the flaming door… The day was hot, but not the spectacular heat that drives people into air conditioning and makes the newspaper…

  Dick Stein

  April 13, 2020

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Hobby Boss, paint, troubles, varnish, Workshop

• Grumman F9F-2 Panther – Part Three – You Only Forget Once

  

  Putting together a model of a jet airplane is pretty straightforward in comparison to a biplane or a WWII bomber. Fewer parts, no propellors, and usually a much sturdier undercarriage. But there is one thing that most modern jets have in common – tricycle landing gear and a tendency to sit on their tails. The…

  Dick Stein

  April 12, 2020

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, design, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Hobby Boss, landing gear, subassemblies

• Airbrushing Outside The Box

  

  My learning curve with the airbrush was a bit steep a few years ago. It has become easier lately, but occasionally jags upward again. To be fair, it’s me kicking it up. I continually decide that I need to improve upon proven techniques. Even if I got a good result last time. I seem incapable…

  Dick Stein

  April 8, 2020

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, British aircraft, camouflage, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Masking, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Workshop

  airbrushing, camouflage, Masking

• The Immodest Stashes

  

  At some stage of the game, the status of your kit stash tips over from ” modest ” to ” immodest “. Then it goes to ” blatant ” and then ” arrogant “. This is probably about the time when your spouse starts to notice it, and you become secretive. Or it may be…

  Dick Stein

  April 4, 2020

  1:72 scale, Collecting, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Organisation, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Workshop

  kits, spare parts, stash

• Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part Five – A Whiter Shade Of Pale

  

  A confession – I was courting when ” A Whiter Shade Of Pale ” was new on the charts and I tried to be cool by dancing to it. It goes on longer than a Methodist sermon but without the jazzy language or uptempo beat… I hated it then and I hate it now. The…

  Dick Stein

  March 31, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Mr. Color, rattle can, Wellington bomber

• Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part Four – Mr Ghost

  

  Are we ever ready for the undercoat in our lives? Probably not…but when we make model kits there comes a time when we are definitely going to have to reach for the spray. I say that as an airbrush user, but I think the rattle can people are in much the same boat. I have…

  Dick Stein

  March 30, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Mr. Color, primer, Tamiya paint, Wellington bomber

• Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part Three – Lemme Up Youse Mugs!

  

  I’ll murdalize ya! Just lemme up! The building table was well in use in our heading shot as I sought to get the tailplanes level and even on the Wellington Mk 1C. The fuselage had been cemented with Humbrol Poly tube cement due to an article I found featuring a build of this same plane.…

  Dick Stein

  March 29, 2020

  1:72 scale, adhesives, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, subassembly, Workshop

  Mr. Base White, tube cement, Wellington bomber

• Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part Two – More Poles

  

  Our heading image is very close to the version of the Wellington Mk 1C that I am building, though in the case of this plane it has the later grey and grey/green upper works rather than the green/brown. But it provides painting hints that Italeri have left out of their instructions, so I am grateful.…

  Dick Stein

  March 28, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Czech models, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Workshop

  engines, moulding, turrets, Wellington bomber

• Wait. What?

  

  I have just been given a conflicting story and am in the process of processing it. Pardon the odd sounds coming from my brain. Some of them are gas and some of them are suspicion. The basic problem surfaced a few months ago when I went to my local hobby shop to get another bottle…

  Dick Stein

  March 17, 2020

  Colour Schemes, Hobby Shops, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Painting, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Dullcote, Lacquer, marketing, shortages, Testors