Tag: card models

• Sandown Park 2019 – Part Four – Hearts of Card

  

  I am always pleased to see our local card builder at the WASMEX exhibitions – card and paper seem so ill-suited to modelling. When I thought that, I had no idea what the kit and printing industry in Europe could produce. I’ve since learned by some practical experinece what can be done with pre-made card…

  Dick Stein

  June 22, 2019

  card models, Miniature Philosophy, Model ships, Modelling exhibitions, Modelling materials

  card models, Sandown Park, ships

• Donny’s House

  

  When I went to play at Donny’s house I made sure that I went to the bathroom at home first. Even if I didn’t have to go just then. It wasn’t a problem with dirty toilets – not that at all. That was a school problem, but as long as you didn’t need to do…

  Dick Stein

  February 24, 2019

  1:72 scale, card models, Dioramas, Scale Model Buildings, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Wet Dog Regional Airport

  card models, Wet Dog Regional

• Andrichuk’s House

  

  Al’s retired and Vera knows it – because he is hanging around the house all day. Not that he does much to make it look better – he’s content that it had a coat of paint on the trim when he built it and doesn’t see where he needs to go mad with a paintbrush…

  Dick Stein

  February 23, 2019

  1:72 scale, Modelling materials, Scale Model Buildings, Scale Models, Wet Dog Regional Airport

  card models, frugality, retirement, Wet Dog Regional

• The House Of Cards

  

  Or ” How I Learned To Glue My Fingers Together Blindfolded “. I have been engaged in building a card model from a Superquick kit. This is a bus depot that can moonlight as an airplane hangar. The makers even provide spare signage with an aviation theme. The kit is largely die-cut. Most of the…

  Dick Stein

  February 18, 2019

  1:72 scale, Doll Houses, Miniature photography, Modelling materials, RCAF Wet Dog, Scale Model Buildings, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Wet Dog Regional Airport

  Air Station, card models, Superquick

• Hut, Hut, Hut…

  

  All three huts, in fact, destined for either the radar station at Wet Dog Regional or the ablutions block at RCAF Wet Dog – wherever they will do the most good. They are the first fruits of Frugal Days – the week in which I do not build an expensive plastic kit, but rather turn…

  Dick Stein

  February 13, 2019

  1:72 scale, Civil aircraft, Dioramas, Military models, Modelling materials, RCAF Wet Dog, Wet Dog Regional Airport

  card models, frugality, RCAF Wet Dog, Wet Dog Regional