Tag: Czech models

• Brewster Buccaneer – Part Two – It Fits!

  

  Those two glorious words… The interior for the Brewster Buccaneer is a complex thing – Special Hobby have made use of tiny little injected pieces as well as the resin and PE and it took a day and a halve to finish the flight deck. But I have to give the Czechs credit where it…

  Dick Stein

  July 15, 2020

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

  Brewster, Buccaneer, Czech models, interiror

• Heinkel He70 F-2 – Part Two – Methinks I Doth Smell A Ratte

  

  And it may be a Ukrainian ratte at that. The kit has just been started – the cockpit tray completed and some preliminary wing work to box in the wheel wells – and already I am suspicious that this kit has Eastern European origins. Or at least Middle Europe. Middler than Germany, at any rate.…

  Dick Stein

  November 16, 2019

  1:72 scale, airliner, Czech models, German aircraft, Model Airplane, Ruritanian Aircraft, Scale Models, subassembly

  airliner, Czech models, Heinkel

• Douglas A-20 Havoc – Part Five – Just Because Someone Was A Fool…

  

  …Doesn’t mean you have to follow them. This might be the phrase best suited to the stage of building that we are up to today – the landing gear on the A-20 Havoc. It is tricycle gear and the original designers of the ship wanted to make the wheels and tyres disappear from the airstream…

  Dick Stein

  November 7, 2019

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

  Czech models, Douglas Havoc, landing gear

• Douglas A-20 Havoc – Part One – Search The Sprue

  

  I’m starting to know how to play the game – at least recognising some of the new rules. It’s changed since the 1960’s… Back then, plastic model kits gave you only a very few choices – the AMT 3-in-1 cars had extra parts that you could glue onto them to make racing cars or customs.…

  Dick Stein

  November 3, 2019

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Czech models, Decals, Model Airplane, RCAF Wet Dog, Soviet aircraft

  bomber, Czech models, Douglas Havoc

• Vought Vindicator – Part Two – The Czech To Progress

  I have written before about Eastern European short-run kits and their peculiarities. The first experience was bad, then good, then bad, then gradually better and better. It is very much a mixed bag of sweet and sours when you build Czech, Pole, or Ukrainian. The Vought Vindicator is actually quite on the sweet side. To…

  Dick Stein

  September 6, 2019

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

  Czech models, USN, Vought

• Well, Boys, I’m Sticking To My Workbench

  

  Yet again. Where the hell did that patch of superglue come from? I claim no record for the number of times that I have inadvertently adhered to the furniture. Not that I wouldn’t get it, but it’d be nothing to be proud of. It shows a triumph of sloppiness over organisation – but at least…

  Dick Stein

  March 8, 2019

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Czech models, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  adhesives, Czech models, glues, superglue

• Northrop Nomad – Part One – Starting To See A Pattern Develop

  

  I’m not the brightest of individuals but I can see a trend emerging – the Czechs are taking over*. At least they seem to be taking over the shelves of the local hobby shops with their 1:72 scale plastic model kits. I’ve encountered them in Melbourne and again here in Perth and it would appear…

  Dick Stein

  April 14, 2018

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Czech models, Hobby Shops, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, Uncategorized

  Czech models, Northrop, trainers