Tag: basic kits

• Hobby Boss MiG3 – Part Two – Day One

  

  Tuesday at the club is always a balancing act – the opportunity to speak with friends vs time to build a model. Often friends win out and a great deal of manure exchange takes place. It makes the hobby all that more fertile. It is a good opportunity to work on a simple kit like…

  Dick Stein

  June 9, 2026

  1:72 scale, Chinese models, design, Model Airplane, Model building club, Painting, Soviet aircraft, subassembly

  basic kits, hobby club

• No Box Art

  

  No colour call-out. No decal sheet. No safety instructions. No history of the prototype. Just sprue trees and a basic diagram. If this describes a lot of the kits you buy, congratulations – but only if you got them cheaply. If you paid full price you deserved all the added extras. What good would a…

  Dick Stein

  February 4, 2025

  research, Scale Models, Self Reliance, Uncategorized, Utility Models

  basic kits, no-name marketing

• Have I Got The Latest, Latest Kit?

  

  With the photo-etch and the resin and the masks and the pots of paint and the signed copy of the designer’s baby photo? Gee, I hope not; I don’t think I could stand the pressure to perform. The 14th coat of weathering oil/lacquer/authenticity magic would reduce me to tears. I could not win a court…

  Dick Stein

  December 26, 2024

  1:72 scale, Collecting, design, frugality, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Utility Models

  basic kits, extra kits, frugality