Tag: ESCI

• SE5A – Part One – Is There A Model In There?

  

  A good question – this old Esci baggie was sitting forlorn and unbuilt – and likely to be touched for many a year until the Kit Whisperer found it. I will be frank – I deliberately seek out the most modest of kits to build. The $ 500 aircraft carrier is not for me –…

  Dick Stein

  September 13, 2023

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, design, frugality, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models

  ESCI, humble kits, SE5A

• A7 Corsair II – Part One – A Childhood Dream

  

  I always admired the Ling-Temco-Vought Corsair II when I was a boy and dreamed of flying it. Had I dreamed up some way to see without glasses I might have saved myself some heartache., This childhood infatuation eventually petered out when I discovered girls, but it is somewhat surprising that I never built a model…

  Dick Stein

  May 6, 2023

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Box Art, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  ESCI, Italeri, LTV, USN

• Dudded? Or Clumsy?

  

  Starting out on a kit that I bought from someone’s stash, I was gleefully contemplating the colour scheme when I noticed that there was no canopy for the aircraft. Had it been included in the kit and I lost it? Had it been missing and was overlooked at the time? Was I in possession of…

  Dick Stein

  September 1, 2020

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, finances, Israeli aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, Secondhand, subassembly

  Airfix, ESCI, missing part, Secondhand, stash