Tag: Czech fits

• Fairey Battle Mk I – Part Two – The Paradox

  

  How can a short-run moulder be so good at making injected parts… And then make so many bad resin ones; detailed resin panels that are meant to fit precisely. ” Meant ” is a curiously elastic word. I have been making two cockpit tubs from this Czech kit – they involve sides, back and top…

  Dick Stein

  July 25, 2024

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Czech models, design, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Resin, subassembly, Uncategorized

  cockpits, Czech fits, resin castings

• F-82 Twin Mustang – Part Two – Czech Out The Fit

  

  I know what Forrest Gump felt like sometimes – particularly upon opening a Czech kit. The box of czecholates that you get can have hard centres, soft centres, or centres with no positioning tabs whatsoever. You will be challenged. In the case of the Twin Mustang the fit of the cockpits was actually reasonable –…

  Dick Stein

  August 6, 2022

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

  Czech fits, F-82, Mustang