Tag: Clipper

• Boeing Clipper 314 – Part Four – The Horse

  

  When we fall off a horse we are counselled to get right back on – before we develop a fear that would paralyse us. Sound thinking, and as I was unhappy with the finish of the Boeing 314 DIXIE CLIPPER I considered it advisable to go out and buy another kit…and finish it to a…

  Dick Stein

  April 13, 2026

  1:144 scale, American aircraft, Colour Schemes, damage control, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  Clipper, finish, re-do

• Boeing 314 Clipper – Part Three – President’s Plane

  

  When Only The Best Will Do. This aircraft – DIXIE CLIPPER – flew Franklin D. Roosevelt to the Casablanca Conference in 1943. He maintained a Douglas for Continental flights – the SACRED COW. This build fell together but as usual it also started to fall apart as it progressed. The Mr Color 2028 Duraluminium went…

  Dick Stein

  April 12, 2026

  1:144 scale, airliner, American aircraft, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Painting

  Boeing, Clipper, silver finish