Tag: Bristol

• Bristol Bulldog – Part Six – Pip Pip Reggie

  

  The Lockdown Bulldog was finished – and a day before time. Shows what you can do when you are doing what you can do… Someone – I cannot think who it was – gave the big horse laugh at US Navy and US Army aircraft of the 1930’s for being too colourful. He saw the…

  Dick Stein

  September 25, 2021

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

  Airfix, Bristol, RAF markings, Soho

• Bristol Benheim Mk I – Part Four – The Museum Aircraft

  

  So why does a Bristol Blenheim Mk I bomber – a quintessentially early war RAF light bomber – show up in the Bomber Command hall of Stein’s Air World? I mean apart from the fact that there was a kit on the shelf at Stanbridge’s Hobby Shop and I had money in my pocket… If…

  Dick Stein

  August 24, 2018

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, British aircraft, camouflage, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Museums, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Air World Museum, Bristol, Canada, RAAF, RAF, RCAF

• 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

• Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke – Part Four – The Coastal Command Wing

  

  I have been delaying publication of the Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke final photos for several reasons; the weather is cold, the paint is slow to dry, and I have been making mistakes. Fortunately, not the sort of errors that are irreversible. The colour scheme of the Bolingbroke is taken directly from the Avia book I mentioned in…

  Dick Stein

  August 2, 2018

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

  Air World Museum, Bristol, Canadian, Coastal Command

• Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke – Part Two – If It Ain’t Bolingbroke…

  

  In a reversal of other people’s normal behaviour patterns, I commenced doing the Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke before I had thoroughly researched it. I was going on an illustration in an Avia book about Canadian aircraft of the WW2 period and the one I wanted seemed to be similar to the Bristol Blenheim Mk IV. As this…

  Dick Stein

  July 31, 2018

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Model Airplane, Museums, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Bristol, design, museum example