Tag: Antonov

• Tupolev ANT-5 – Part Two – The Midget Submarine

  

  It’s not really, but it looks like it – or Sherman from Sherman’s Lagoon. The actual fit of the fuselage halves for this Zvezda model is spot-on – only basic smoothing needed. The sesqui-wing needs some putty help, but even that is pretty minor. It encourages me to think that the rest of the components…

  Dick Stein

  June 4, 2023

  1:72 scale, design, Model Airplane, Russian models, Scale Models, Soviet aircraft, subassembly

  Antonov, sesquiplane, Soviet

• ” Slice Me Off About $ 5.00 Worth, Love…”

  

  ” And is the polony fresh…? “ A reader of this column who lives in my same town has raised an interesting question re. the dearly-remembered Antonov AN 225 cargo jet. Apparently there is a 1:72 kit of it from the Ukrainian maker ” Modelsvit “. A massive thing, of course, and one of those…

  Dick Stein

  February 1, 2023

  1:72 scale, airliner, finances, frugality, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Soviet aircraft, Ukrainian models, Uncategorized

  Antonov, kits, prices

• Modelling The Misery

  

  We have a European war going on right now with death and destruction on a terrible scale. We’ve had these since the time of the Roman Empire, but this is one in real time with live video coverage. And it has some people we know in it…people we care about. The modelling hobby and the…

  Dick Stein

  January 30, 2023

  airliner, Miniature Philosophy, Uncategorized

  Antonov, Ukraine, war