Tag: 1940's

• Atlantic Wildcat – Part Three – White And Grey

  

  Like a West Point dress uniform. The Wildcat build started on Saturday and finished on Monday – with plenty of eating, drinking, and sleeping time in the interval. It was not the most complex nor puzzling kit ever built. But what a sweet model. There is a current air show Wildcat flying in North America…

  Dick Stein

  May 27, 2026

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, prototypes

  1940's, Atlantic Theatre, US Navy

• F-82 Twin Mustang – Part Nine – Northwest Air Defence

  

  I had no idea as a kid. ( I don’t have much more sense now. ) But I sure wish I had known about the F-82 Twin Mustang long before my old age. I might have been able to see one in real life – because they flew from an air base near to a…

  Dick Stein

  August 14, 2022

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, design, History, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models

  1940's, air defence, long range, USAF