Tag: Douglas

• Douglas C-47 – Part Two – Honeymoon Express

  

  The plane I’m building has a real history – apart from being a special scheme on a set of aftermarket decals. ” Honeymoon Express ” was the lead ship on a paratroop assault on Nadzab in New Guinea in 1943 in conjunction with an assault on Lae. It is a good point of interest as…

  Dick Stein

  July 26, 2020

  1:72 scale, airliner, American aircraft, Model Airplane, Painting, research, subassembly, Uncategorized

  C-47, Douglas, Italeri, New Guinea

• Douglas Digby Mk I – Part Two – The Split Herring

  

  Well, you gotta admit the heading image looks a bit like that. I decided to show the office before I closed it up as the thing took the best part of two days to do. The club session was spent assembling big structures like wings and tailplanes but the rest of that day and all…

  Dick Stein

  July 2, 2020

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  cockpit, Digby, Douglas, PE

• Douglas Digby Mk I – Part One – The Show Find

  

  Another show find from last year’s Victorian Scale modelling exhibition, folks, but this time it was not on the bargain tables. It was firmly in the fancy kit section – an area in which I look but do not touch. However, it had the magic word on the box ; ” Canadian ” and that…

  Dick Stein

  June 29, 2020

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Modelling exhibitions, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  ASW, Canada, Douglas, Special Hobby