Tag: float plane

• De Havilland Kate Moth – Part One – Airfix of Middle Age

  

  Grown old in the mould – but tarted up with a new box. This Airfix model is a 1990 re-box of a series of Moths that originally hatched in 1957. It started in a plastic baggie cocoon but eventually graduated to the small cardboard box. At least that allowed Airfix more surface area to print…

  Dick Stein

  April 4, 2026

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Civil aircraft, damage control, design, frugality, Model Airplane, Model building club, research, Self Reliance

  Airfix, De Havilland, float plane

• Kawanishi Shiun – Part One – A Norm By Any Other Name

  

  If you are scandalised by the use of Allied code-names for Japanese aircraft of WW2, make sure you check back later when I use NATO reporting names for Soviet planes. This is officially the E15K1 but not again in this column. It is a Norm. A very special plane and welcome in the collection. I…

  Dick Stein

  March 19, 2023

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, frugality, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling exhibitions, Scale Models

  float plane, Japanese, Kawanishi, RS Models