Tag: Boeing

• Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part Three – Washing Day

  

  I’m gonna hang out the washing on the Mildenhall Line…and so on. Dad’s Air Force musters again. Today is washing day for the two new kits – the Grumman TBF-1 and the Boeing Fortress Mk III. I have beautiful weather for it – bone dry and a very modest 27º C temperature in the shed.…

  Dick Stein

  July 2, 2019

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, adhesives, British aircraft, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Workshop

  Boeing, Painting, preparation, Workshop

• Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part Two – The Box Open

  

  Regular day today. April Fools torment over for another year. Here’s the contents of the new Airfix kit: Fuselage halves with a big space in the nose for variations in framing and windows. Propellers, superchargers, and what looks suspiciously like a steam dome for a locomotive. Internal framing bits and machine guns. Detailed engines and…

  Dick Stein

  July 1, 2019

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  Boeing, Decals, Fortress, palns, sprues, value

• Boeing Fortress Mk III – Part One – Happy Birthday, You Old Kid…

  

  Okay. Put on your retro panties and pull them up. Now wander back to your childhood and the time you were given birthday money and were let off for the Saturday to visit every hobby shop in town. a. DId you visit every shop in town? Yes you did. b. Were you tired out? No, you weren’t.…

  Dick Stein

  July 1, 2019

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, finances, Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  Airfix, birthdays, Boeing, nostalgia, Sex

• The Long-Started Kit

  

  A very long time ago I bought a plastic model kit for my daughter. This sounds like the standard modeller’s joke excuse, but I assure you that it was not that at all. My daughter and I had just flown in an Ansett Airways Boeing 767 – 200 to the eastern states for a holiday…

  Dick Stein

  December 13, 2018

  American aircraft, Australian aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  airliner, Boeing, Doyusha, large scale, old kit