Tag: flying boat

• Boeing Clipper 314 – Part Five – A Soul At Rest

  

  It took an extra week, but the time was worth it. The aggravating mistakes of the first Boeing Clipper 314 have been corrected. The mental image I had of the result has come into focus. I can rest easy. The duraluminium surface has been all I could ask for – taking decals perfectly and keeping…

  Dick Stein

  April 14, 2026

  1:144 scale, airliner, American aircraft, Box Art, Colour Schemes, damage control, Dioramas, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Uncategorized

  Boeing, flying boat, glossy aluminium

• Boeing 314 Clipper – Part Two – Slicker

  

  And as slick as only a flying boat can be – particularly if it is not an amphibian. Not too many designs of the flying boat era eschewed outboard pontoons or floats. Whether they were local or overseas designs, few used the hull-and-sponson configuration to stop the boat tipping to the side once landed. And…

  Dick Stein

  April 11, 2026

  1:144 scale, airliner, American aircraft, Civil aircraft, design, Model Airplane, prototypes

  Airfix, flying boat, sponsons

• Boeing 314 Clipper – Part One – It’s Not Old Gold

  

  It’s new – in the shops and on my workbench. If you have never built a certain model made by a certain manufacturer of a certain aircraft, it is, by definition, a new model. It might be reissued, it might be remaindered, it might be stash-sold…no matter. You and that model are meeting for the…

  Dick Stein

  April 10, 2026

  1:144 scale, airliner, American aircraft, Collecting, design, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  Boeing, flying boat, Vintage Classic

• 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