Tag: float-planes

• Aichi Seiran – Part Two – The Trolley

  

  This is quite the most detailed trolley I have ever seen. Seaplanes and float-planes are wonderful birds in the air and slippery fish on the surface of the water, but sad encumbrances back at the air base. Unless they are amphibians like the USAF Albatross, they cannot land on their own wheels and need something…

  Dick Stein

  May 28, 2023

  1:72 scale, design, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  Aichi, beaching, float-planes, seaplanes

• Aichi Seiran – Part One – A Bargain

  

  And a Tamiya bargain at that – you don’t see many of those around the shops these days! I cannot say whether this Aichi Seiran float plane model was inexpensive because it was unpopular, or unpopular because it was an old kit, or an old kit because it was inexpensive…that sort of circular logic is…

  Dick Stein

  May 27, 2023

  1:72 scale, design, frugality, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Aichi, float-planes, Tamiya

• Junkers F.13 – Part Five – Flying Iron

  

  Well, the City of Prince George flies again. Never mind the sad wreck in the museum – here she is in pristine glory. And a rare enough bird she is, too. There are few models available in 1:72 of inter-war civil aircraft – if you discount the various boxings of the Douglas DC-3 and the…

  Dick Stein

  August 13, 2021

  1:72 scale, airliner, Canadian aircraft, Civil aircraft, Model Airplane, Museums, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  bush flying, Canada, float-planes, Junkers