Tag: Czechs

• Yak 23 – Part One – Front Line Fighter?

  

  Provided you are smart enough to put the front line as far away from you as possible. This was the thinking of the Soviet VVS when they donated Yak 23 fighters to the Poles and Czechs in the 1950’s. The Soviets had the MiG15 to defend the Motherland against the west and the inferior Yak…

  Dick Stein

  May 20, 2025

  1:72 scale, Czech models, frugality, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Soviet aircraft

  Cold War, Czechs, Soviets

• Resin – Do I Love It Or Hate It?

  

  My return to scale aircraft modelling these last few years has brought me into contact with one of the most interesting materials on the market – polyurethane resin. It is not the first time that I’ve dealt with building plastic – I worked with acrylic polymers and monomers as a dentist for 40 years and…

  Dick Stein

  November 29, 2019

  1:72 scale, Czech models, Miniature Philosophy, Model cars, Modelling materials, research, Resin, Scale Models, Uncategorized, workflow

  Czechs, injection moulds, moulding, Polyurethane resin