Tag: FROG

• Westland Wallace – Part Two – In West You Build Model

  

  In Russia, model build you! It certainly builds your basic modelling skills, as well as your stoicism. The ill-fitting parts, flash, and suspect plastic make sure of that. This kit started in 1964 as a FROG Trailblazer, and the trail has long since been lost – overgrown in weeds. Even when explored by a small…

  Dick Stein

  May 20, 2022

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Civil aircraft, design, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Russian models

  Exacto, FROG, Russia, Tools

• Yakovlev 6 – Part Two – The Amphibious Twins

  

  Pavel and Sergei – the crew of the Encore Models Yak 6. I recognised them – they used to work for FROG in the 60’s, and flew nearly everything that company produced. It was hard work – the long hours wore them down so much that their faces fell off. I suspect that the two…

  Dick Stein

  December 21, 2021

  1:72 scale, Figure modelling, Model Airplane, Russian models, Soviet aircraft

  crewmen, FROG, Russian model kit

• Dornier Do.17Z – Part Two – A FROG Of A Different Colour

  

  The experience of the FROG Dornier is interesting. The kit is an older mould and has raised panel lines but no rivets. I don’t mind as it will have a dark finish anyway. But it is an older kit. Thus the fit in some places is approximate. The fuselage is excellent, the wing box assembly commendably…

  Dick Stein

  January 18, 2021

  1:72 scale, Czech models, German aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, subassembly, Workshop

  Dornier, fillers, FROG, sanding

• Dornier D0.17Z – Part One – First FROG

  

  Well, well, well. after all these years. My first FROG model. This should be an experience. This is a model donated by my friend Paul – part of a stash he kept since the 70’s and 80’s. I feel honoured to build it. The box shows age – you cannot expect it not to. The…

  Dick Stein

  January 18, 2021

  1:72 scale, German aircraft, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models

  FROG