Tag: Airfix

• Nakajima ‘ Kate ‘ – Part Three – The Sub-Assembly

  

  I once wrote that there are always some areas of model building that are a chore – something we approach with a groan and leave with a cheer. And it’s different for each modeller. Well, the same applies to certain stages that are a real pleasure. Oddly enough, for me it is completing sub-assemblies. It’s…

  Dick Stein

  April 23, 2018

  1:72 scale, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  Airfix, Nakajima ‘ Kate ‘, sub-assembly

• Nakajima ‘ Kate ‘ – Part Two – Realistic Manufacture

  

  The new Airfix model kit is sitting drying in the warm workshop as I write. I’ve done the washing of the parts, scanned the decal sheet and instructions, and done a preliminary check of the parts. I’m delighted with what I’ve found. Or not found…no polyurethane blocks with miniscule parts to be sawn free and…

  Dick Stein

  April 22, 2018

  1:72 scale, Decals, Japanese aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  1:72 airplane, Airfix, Japanese aircraft, Nakajima ‘ Kate ‘

• Too Much Of A Good Thing

  

  Waterslide decals were the wonder of my childhood. I only encountered them in the model kits I built, and since these were kits in the 1950’s, they weren’t all that good. They were yellowed, cracked, thick, lumpy, and inaccurate. They had margins that looked like stranded jellyfish. They took about a half hour to soak…

  Dick Stein

  March 10, 2018

  1:72 scale, Czech models, Decals, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Academy, Airfix, Aurora, AZ, Decals