Tag: Aéronavale

• FROG Stash Avenger – Part One – Inadvertent Baggie

  

  Got for a very low price in a plastic freezer bag, this FROG Avenger of 1973 is going to be a beautiful model to build. The parts photo shows some work already done at the SMCWA clubrooms: cutting and sanding plus Sprue Goo filling of numerous FROG sinkholes. The week’s interval between club dates means…

  Dick Stein

  June 30, 2024

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Box Art, Colour Schemes, Decals, frugality, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  Aéronavale, FROG, Grumman

• Douglas DC-3 – Part Five – Et Voila

  

  There is a lesson to be learned with this Airfix model of a DC-3 in Aéronavale colours – and I must compel myself to learn it. It is a lesson of humility. At the start I thought this a marginal model – the sort of ugly cousin kit from an old company that had been…

  Dick Stein

  February 18, 2021

  1:72 scale, airliner, American aircraft, Civil aircraft, French aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  Aéronavale, Airfix, cheap kit, Douglas C-47, satisfaction