Tag: Douglas Digby

• Douglas Digby Mk I – Part Four – The Full Measure

  

  I use that title because in many respects this Special Hobby build has taken the full measure of several things; my patience, my eyesight, and the remnants of several paint containers. The patience started to run out early on when the instructions called for the rudder pedals to be folded up out of photo-etched brass.…

  Dick Stein

  July 4, 2020

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

  Douglas Digby, photo-etch kits, Testors

• Douglas Digby Mk I – Part Three – The Name…

  

  I am puzzled. The name doesn’t seem to fit. When US airplanes got a name – as opposed to a model number  – they generally got one that tied in with an established pattern – as a for instance, take the Boeing series of bombers – from B 17 to B-52 in four steps –…

  Dick Stein

  July 3, 2020

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Douglas Digby, names, RCAF