Tag: Douglas C-47

• Douglas DC-3 – Part Five – Et Voila

  

  There is a lesson to be learned with this Airfix model of a DC-3 in Aéronavale colours – and I must compel myself to learn it. It is a lesson of humility. At the start I thought this a marginal model – the sort of ugly cousin kit from an old company that had been…

  Dick Stein

  February 18, 2021

  1:72 scale, airliner, American aircraft, Civil aircraft, French aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  Aéronavale, Airfix, cheap kit, Douglas C-47, satisfaction

• Douglas DC-3 – Part Four – Keeping The Faith

  

  If you have shares in 3M or in the Ustar manufacturing company in Taiwan, take heart – your yearly dividend is assured. I have been masking the Douglas DC 3 and it has taken slightly more tape than would have been required for the full-sized aircraft. You need to have a vision as you do…

  Dick Stein

  February 17, 2021

  1:72 scale, airliner, Colour Schemes, French aircraft, Lacquer, Masking, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  airbrushing, Douglas C-47, Lacquer, Masking

• Douglas DC-3 – Part Three – The Airfix Channel

  

  Well, I’d watch it if they started broadcasting, and so would you. But this is not about the television – it’s about the Airfix channel that they put between the fuslage and inner wing panel of the DC3. It is so far the widest gap this side of Darien. Not on both sides of the…

  Dick Stein

  February 15, 2021

  1:72 scale, airliner, American aircraft, French aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Airfix, Douglas C-47, filler

• Douglas DC-3 – Part Two – It Fits Where it Touches

  

  I am trying not to be discouraged by the Airfix DC3/C47 kit. I have chosen wisely to make it into a closed kit – the door fitting on the port side is truly appalling. Or perhaps I am looking at it from the wrong perspective – in the original form it has three mini-guns and…

  Dick Stein

  February 15, 2021

  1:72 scale, airliner, American aircraft, design, French aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly

  Airfix, Douglas C-47, moulding

• Douglas C-47 – Part Four – The Romantic Gooney Bird

  

  Do not adjust your set or your eyes. The green is supposed to look like that. VH – CGQ or ” Honeymoon Express ” was a lot dirtier in her flying days than she appears in the museum. Not a scrap of shine on her in the three photos that appear on the net. I…

  Dick Stein

  July 28, 2020

  1:72 scale, airliner, American aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Weathering

  camouflage pattern, Douglas C-47, New Guinea, Pacific theatre

• Douglas C-47 – Part Three – One Day

  

  Well, it was a temperate and pleasant summer day and no-one needed me, so I just popped the top on the Italeri kit, washed the sprue trees, and got on with it. The component parts you see here laid out ready for temporary or permanent assembly were the result of about 5 hours of cutting,…

  Dick Stein

  July 27, 2020

  1:72 scale, airliner, American aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Workshop

  Douglas C-47, fillers, Liquitape, subassembly

• Douglas C-47 – Part One – The Gooney Bird Again

  

  I built a Canadian Gooney Bird a last year as part of my Air World collection – a Burma Biscuit Bomber that has been preserved in the Canadian museums as a flying tribute. That should have finished my fascination with the Dakota/C-47/Skytrain/ Gooney bird for some time. Not a bit of it. I had collected…

  Dick Stein

  July 25, 2020

  1:72 scale, airliner, American aircraft, Colour Schemes, Military models, Model Airplane

  Douglas C-47, extra decals, Gooney Brd