Tag: Dassault

• Dassault Super Mystere – Part Two – Come In And Sit Down

  

  A model aircraft cockpit can be a highlight of the build or it can be a pit of cocks. It is all dependent upon the skill of the kit moulders and their level of interest. The classic Airfix or Monogram cockpit that consisted of two posts running horizontally inside and a seat that straddled them…

  Dick Stein

  September 18, 2023

  1:72 scale, Czech models, design, French aircraft, Israeli aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly

  cockpit, Czech models, Dassault, pilots

• Mirage F.1C – Part One – Stash Build

  

  And it turned out to be part of someone else’s stash. These things come to you. There’ll be a bring and buy sale at a model exhibition or a swap meet at the local club. If you are told of it in time you can prepare yourself by rummaging in the wife’s purse or the…

  Dick Stein

  August 16, 2021

  1:72 scale, Decals, finances, French aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling Club, Scale Models

  Dassault, French Air Force, Hasegawa, Mirage

• Vautour IIN – Part One – Who Made it?

  

  I initially thought it was Dassault. Then I thought it was SNCAO or SNCASE and then Pret a Manger and then eventually I didn’t care any more. It was designed and produced by someone in France, for some reason, at some stage of the game. Many were made and quite a few flew. Past that…

  Dick Stein

  July 21, 2021

  1:72 scale, Czech models, design, Israeli aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Dassault, IAF, Special Hobby, Suez colour scheme

• Dassault Ouragan – Part Five – Smile

  

  I suppose if you are going to paint a shark mouth on the front of an aircraft – a la Flying Tigers – there is no need to be discreet about it. You’re not trying to hide anything. You might as well make it as big as possible. This seems to have been the philosophy…

  Dick Stein

  January 27, 2021

  1:72 scale, Czech models, Decals, French aircraft, Israeli aircraft, Model Airplane, Painting, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Czech kits, Dassault, Decals, Ouragan, Valom

• Dassault Ouragan – Part Four – The Colour of The Underwear

  

  The colour of the underwear is always important. And not just in the gusset, either. Trying to find authoritative material about the insides and undersides of aircraft can be a problem. There are air museums, of course, and you get to peer from a distance at what the wheel wells and control surface recesses look…

  Dick Stein

  January 25, 2021

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, French aircraft, Israeli aircraft, Model Airplane, Painting, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  colour, Dassault, Ouragan

• Dassault Ouragan – Part Three – The Grey Ghost

  

  I like grey primer on aircraft. It makes them look like the old hard rubber recognition models you used to encounter in yard sales. I wish now that I had taken advantage of those buying opportunities. And it raises an interesting question – could a person build up a valid aircraft collection with the planes…

  Dick Stein

  January 25, 2021

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, French aircraft, Israeli aircraft, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  Dassault, grey primer, Ouragan

• Dassault Ouragan – Part One – Right To The Door

  

  This is one of the kits that was brought to our model club by a chap selling a stash – though another member has suggested that they were the result of a trip to the orient and a suitcase full of plastic brought back home. Some people think this an imposition on the builder –…

  Dick Stein

  January 23, 2021

  1:72 scale, Czech models, French aircraft, Israeli aircraft, Model Airplane, Model building club, Museums, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Dassault, IAF, jet, Valom kit