Tag: Canada

• 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

• Douglas Dakota – Part Two – The Wonderful/Horrible Net

  

  My determination to build a Douglas Dakota in Canadian markings was aided wonderfully/horribly by the internet. It was able to tell me exactly what I did and didn’t need to know, but unfortunately did not put a divider between the two types of information. It’s sort of like trying to read a modellers Talmud…except you…

  Dick Stein

  August 16, 2018

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Museums, Painting, research, Uncategorized

  airshow, Burma, Canada, DAkota

• Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke – Part One – Mark Another One Up

  

  I knew this was going to happen, but I didn’t know it was going to be so soon. I am repeating a build. No. I am repeating a build to a certain extent. I am doing what the prototype manufacturers and the air forces did – making the aircraft that developed from an earlier mark. In…

  Dick Stein

  July 30, 2018

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Stein’s Air World, Uncategorized

  Airfix, Bristol/Fairchild, Canada, Stein’s Air World