Tag: bargain model

• PZL P.11c – Part One – 3.23 Złoty Bet…

  

  When I decide to gamble, I do not hold myself back. Whether it is the race horses, the roulette table, or plastic model kits, I just open my wallet and let myself go. I spent 3.23 złoty on this Polish fighter plane and I am not ashamed to admit it. The gamble, of course, is…

  Dick Stein

  December 29, 2022

  1:72 scale, frugality, Model Airplane, Polish models, Scale Models

  bargain model, Polish aircraft, PZL

• Ilyushin Il-2 – Part Five – For One Dollar More…

  

  I get to build a model of Clint Eastwood. No, no, no…Not that at all – for one dollar more I get to build another Ilyushin IL-2 with the winter ski equipment on it. A chap arrived at the club selling kits for a dollar and this turned out to be the hi-tech version of…

  Dick Stein

  March 21, 2022

  1:72 scale, Czech models, finances, Model Airplane, Soviet aircraft, Uncategorized

  bargain model, Ilyushin, Smer, stash

• Canadair Sabre – Part One – The Bargain Table

  

  It’s always good to set limits for yourself – to make a set of rules about what you’re going to do, Then when you do just the opposite you can wallow in guilt. I wasn’t going to spend money at the 2019 WASMEX exhibition because I was going to save it all for Melbourne’s show.…

  Dick Stein

  September 13, 2019

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Secondhand, Uncategorized

  bargain model, Canadair Sabre, Canadian, display team, reverse decals

• Glorious $ 5 Plan

  

  Wood Morning Comrades. Is tell you of Glorious new triumph of Party. Is begin $ 5 Plan as ordered by Glorious Leader. Is find ICM scale model of Polikarpov I-15 aircraft at IMPEX show in bargain basement 50% off no-one-want-me bin. Is pay price of $ 5.00 to capitalist salesman. Is rescue unopened new kit…

  Dick Stein

  June 6, 2018

  1:72 scale, Decals, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Soviet aircraft, Uncategorized

  bargain model, ICM model, Soviet model