Tag: Douglas Devastator

• Douglas Devastator – Part Three – Did I Get My Money’s Worth?

  

  That’s always a pertinent question as far as my hobbies go. Indeed it also applies to clothing purchases, dinners at restaurants, and holiday trips. Sometimes the answer is no – for instance when they bring a tiny dinner out on a vast white plate and then hover like a Sikorski asking whether it is to…

  Dick Stein

  September 30, 2019

  American aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, finances, Lacquer, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Stein’s Air World, Uncategorized

  Airfix, Douglas Devastator, USN, Yellow Wings

• Douglas Devastator – Part Two – Crates

  

  ” My God, Carruthers! They’re sending boys up in crates like those…” Well, don’t write off the Douglas Devastator TBD so soon. Admittedly they did not have sterling success as fighting machines in the battles they fought…but they did get some torpedo strikes. If the US Navy had addressed the problems of the Mk XIII…

  Dick Stein

  September 28, 2019

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

  Airfix, Douglas Devastator, US Navy, Yellow Wings

• Douglas Devastator – Part One – I Was Devastated

  

  Well, not actually devastated…which apparently means ruined with overwhelming shock and grief. More like surprised and delighted, in a geeky way. Someone was selling old dead plastic model kits for tiny prices. It was not even the swap-meet portion of the Victorian plastic model show – just a few table-holders who decided to get in…

  Dick Stein

  September 26, 2019

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, Model Airplane, Modelling exhibitions, Painting, Scale Models

  Airfix, Douglas Devastator, frugality, US Navy, Yellow Wings