Tag: gallows

• Fairey Battle Mk I – Part Five – The Hangin’ Tree

  

  I am not a naturally cruel man, though I have trained in the art… Nevertheless there is a certain grimness about constructing a gallows on which to execute a model airplane. You start to think of Sidney Carton or Till Eulenspiegel… The advantage of it all is the ability to spray from all sides in…

  Dick Stein

  July 28, 2024

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, workflow

  gallows, Painting, smooth coating

• Tupolev SB2 – Part Three – The Gallows…

  

  I never realised how much my painting stand looked like a gallows tree until I hung the Tupolev SB2 on it for undercoating and colour coats. Didn’t mean to be quite so morbid… But the fact that the SB2 was suspended there and took its paint so well pointed out the basic utility of the…

  Dick Stein

  February 14, 2020

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Painting, Russian models, Soviet aircraft, Tools, Workshop

  gallows, Painting, Tupolev bomber, workshop jig