Tag: flying boat

• Short Sunderland – Part Five – A Great Save!

  

  And it isn’t even Hockey Night In Canada, Brought To You By B/A ( Canadian joke… ). This is, however an RCAF Sunderland that operated out of Northern Ireland in WW2. It was kept on Lough Erne along with other flying boats like Catalinas and sortied through the Donegal Corridor out to the North Atlantic…

  Dick Stein

  April 10, 2022

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, History, Model Airplane, Painting, research, Scale Models, Storage and display, Weathering

  flying boat, Northern Ireland, RCAF, WW2

• Short Sunderland – Part One – Hello 1961

  

  Another snap back to the past – in this case provided by a good friend. The Airfix Sunderland III. This is a later issue box than my original, but the parts are quite the same. This one is an 80’s version. I am hoping the decals have survived the decades, though to be sure they…

  Dick Stein

  April 6, 2022

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, design, History, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models

  Airfix, flying boat, RCAF, SUnderland

• Supermarine Stranraer – Part Six – The Ghost of Gleet Bay

  

  One day FY-B…old No. 915…will be bobbing off the buoy at RCAF GLEET BAY along with the other floatplanes and flying boats of the Coastal Command. I am still working out in my mind a way of displaying these ships in the water without massive sea sculptures. Wish me luck. 915 represents a lot of…

  Dick Stein

  September 17, 2021

  1:72 scale, camouflage, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, Masking, Model Airplane, Painting, RCAF GLEET BAY, Uncategorized

  flying boat, RCAF GLEET BAY, Stranraer