Tag: forest fires

• A Modest Proposal

  

  Kit makers are always trying for another use of a previous model. The tricks of new decal sheet and box art plus a hike in price mean that even if you have not invested any money in a new cash cow, you can milk the old one again. The problem is there are only so…

  Dick Stein

  October 24, 2020

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

  Decals, fire tanker, forest fires, kits, re-issues

• Boeing B-17 – Part Four – Bombing A Different Enemy

  

  As soon as I asked Google to show me B-17’s in Canada I got all the old RCAF pictures I had already seen, plus lots of USAAF shots. And then down at the bottom of a long search something new started to pop up. The civilian B-17. A few had been converted to private planes…

  Dick Stein

  March 1, 2020

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Civil aircraft, Colour Schemes, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  air tanker, B17, forest fires, Montana, Washington state