Tag: Civil aircraft

• More Fire Tankers Needed

  

  And not just in the summer months. The increasing problem of bushfires worldwide means more tanker aircraft are being used. The variety of planes that have been brought to the service is astounding. I have looked at a number of the bombers and surveillance planes I’ve built in their military configuration and realised that I…

  Dick Stein

  June 7, 2025

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Civil aircraft, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, prototypes, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Utility Models

  bushfires, Civil aircraft, fire tankers

• Northrop Gamma – Part One – Inter-war Special

  

  Newcastle Song Day. And I didn’t let the chance go by. This was the first time I had seen a Williams kit – though I had read about them in Scalemetes. The impression I got was that they were rather garage-kit like. This vanished when I opened the box at the club’s stash sale and…

  Dick Stein

  April 1, 2023

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Civil aircraft, frugality, Light plane, Model Airplane, Model building club, Scale Models, Secondhand

  American, Civil aircraft, Inter-war aircraft, Northrop

• Piper J3 – Part One -The Household Word

  

  Hoover. Not Herbert, you herbert. Hoover like in vacuum cleaner. The brand name. Except, in England it isn’t a brand name – it’s the name of a class of product – the vacuum cleaner. People don’t vacuum the house, they hoover it. Losing that capital letter was the greatest piece of industrial and advertising good…

  Dick Stein

  October 11, 2021

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Civil aircraft, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Decals, Light plane, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  Civil aircraft, Light plane, Piper