Tag: 1960’s

• Simplistic Modelling For Complex People

  

  Have you ever wanted to have a perfectly-detailled scale model of a walnut? Or a woodpecker? I cannot vouch for the first but I remember that there were plastic kits of birds that my friend Trevor built in the late 50’s. The kits came with matt paints and brushes and he was reasonably good at…

  Dick Stein

  August 14, 2023

  Box Art, design, History, Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Modelling Supplies, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  1960’s, bird kits, diversity, plastic models

• Heinkel He 177 – Part One – The Griffon Again

  

  This model is a gift from my friend Paul, but it is not the first time I’ve built one. I purchased the same model from a small hobby shop located underneath Trinity Arcade in Perth in the 1960’s – a last gasp of plastic modelling before academic pressures took all my spare time away. I…

  Dick Stein

  November 26, 2021

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, German aircraft, History, Hobby Shops, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  1960’s, Airfix, Heinkel

• Piasecki Flying Banana – Part One – You Had Me At…

  

  They had me at the name – ” Flying Banana ” is not something that you can pass by in a neutral fashion. You either love it or hate it. I have fond memories of these helicopters as Revell kits in the 1950’s. This one is Italeri – itself a recommendation – and when I turned…

  Dick Stein

  April 1, 2019

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, helicopter, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Wet Dog Regional Airport

  1960’s, helicopter, Piasecki, RCAF, rescue