Tag: bombs

• A7 Corsair II – Part Six – Library Build Champ

  

  This is the first aircraft that I’ve built in the Cambridge Library – not in the UK, but in Floreat, Western Australia. The venue has allowed a small group of plastic modellers to have a facilities room on alternate Saturday afternoons for a model-building meeting. We share the space with slightly bemused students who effect…

  Dick Stein

  May 13, 2023

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, design, Model Airplane, Model building club, Painting, Scale Models

  bombs, Corsair, Italeri, missiles

• Ilyushin IL-2 – Part Two – Czeching Out The Fit

  

  Part-fit stage is looking good. The cockpit has proved wonderful – in Czech terms that means it has a ledge to sit in and fits onto the lendge without hack-sawing anything. The fuselage closes…almost…The wings are in register and they have decided shapes to fit onto the fuselage. And the tail surfaces are such a…

  Dick Stein

  March 18, 2022

  1:72 scale, Czech models, design, Model Airplane, Soviet aircraft, subassembly

  bombs, Ilyushin, Soviet, Sturmovik

• Douglas Skyhawk – Part Four – Park It Under The Trees, Izzy

  

  If you’re going to work on the wiring in 218 after lunch you’d better tarp it over in the morning or the thing will be red-hot inside. Hanging with your head upside down under the instrument panel with sweat running in your eyes is not conducive to precision work. And the flies don’t help, either.…

  Dick Stein

  March 27, 2021

  1:72 scale, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Israeli aircraft, Lacquer, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, Museums, Painting, Scale Models

  bombs, repair shop, Schmattarim