Tag: bomber

• Potez 540 – part Six – Acqui De Espero!

  

  I think that lost something in the translation… Or maybe it was a famous battle cry. Or a caption on a poster. Whatever…it translates as a bare ” here I wait “. Honest – it googles up as an advertising phrase for a hotel in the Canary Islands… Don’t ask why it appears on the…

  Dick Stein

  February 13, 2021

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Decals, design, French aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, Scale Models

  bomber, Mister Craft, Potez, Spanish

• Potez 540 – Part One – The Roll Of the Dice

  

  When my mother was expecting me, an angel appeared and offered to make me either smart or good looking – her choice. I now begin to suspect which idea appealed to her. The reason I’ve come to this conclusion is I have purchased another Mister Craft kit from Poland. You’ll remember my experiences with other…

  Dick Stein

  February 8, 2021

  1:72 scale, French aircraft, Model Airplane, Polish models, Scale Models

  bomber, Heller, Mister Craft, Potez

• Mitsubishi Peggy – Part One – Buddy Holly

  

  At the risk of alienating my readers, I would like to recall them to the 1957 song by Buddy Holly: ” Peggy Sue ” and let it play in their minds. It will do so all day, I assure you… The Mitsubishi ” Hiryu ” bomber is a Hasegawa kit that came up in the…

  Dick Stein

  November 29, 2020

  1:72 scale, Box Art, Czech models, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  bomber, Hasegawa, Mitsubishi

• Boeing B-29A – Part One – The New Kit On The Block

  

  Or the shelf, as it happened. I made a safari through the 1:72 jungle at my local hobby shop and this Academy B-29 was lurking at the bottom of the new pile. I am wise enough to know when a model will be popular and not hang round – so I grabbed it with glee…

  Dick Stein

  October 5, 2020

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Academy kit, B-29, Boeing, bomber, tanker

• Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk. V – Part One – The Bargain Kit

  

  Well, you have to have a win sooner or later, don’t you? I had been eyeing the Airfix model of the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk V for nearly a year as it progressed through the shelves of my local shop. It was on the ” to buy ” list but not near the top. Apparently…

  Dick Stein

  June 3, 2020

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

  bargain kit, bomber, RAF, Whitley

• Douglas A-20 Havoc – Part One – Search The Sprue

  

  I’m starting to know how to play the game – at least recognising some of the new rules. It’s changed since the 1960’s… Back then, plastic model kits gave you only a very few choices – the AMT 3-in-1 cars had extra parts that you could glue onto them to make racing cars or customs.…

  Dick Stein

  November 3, 2019

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Czech models, Decals, Model Airplane, RCAF Wet Dog, Soviet aircraft

  bomber, Czech models, Douglas Havoc

• Bristol Blenheim Mk I – Part One – The Cigarette Card Plane

  

  When I was a child in Canada in the 5th grade, I was friends with a little English kid who had migrated with his parents to our mining town. I can’t remember much about him but I have one picture fixed firmly in my mind – he had a magnificent collection of English cigarette cards.…

  Dick Stein

  August 21, 2018

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

  Blenheim, bomber, Bristol, British, RAF