Tag: cheap kit

• Douglas DC-3 – Part Five – Et Voila

  

  There is a lesson to be learned with this Airfix model of a DC-3 in Aéronavale colours – and I must compel myself to learn it. It is a lesson of humility. At the start I thought this a marginal model – the sort of ugly cousin kit from an old company that had been…

  Dick Stein

  February 18, 2021

  1:72 scale, airliner, American aircraft, Civil aircraft, French aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  Aéronavale, Airfix, cheap kit, Douglas C-47, satisfaction

• Grumman Avenger – Part Three – The Economy Kit

  

  I have discovered a few reasons that the Academy Grumman TBF-1 was so cheap: a. The age of the mould means that while the fit and finish are fine, the amount of detail they were prepared to make in the casting – ie time taken to inscribe things – was limited. Either that or they…

  Dick Stein

  May 24, 2019

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, finances, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  cheap kit, frugality, Grumman Avenger