Tag: gift kit

• Another Bronco – Part One – This One Love You Slow Time

  

  Readers can look at a previous post of the North American OV-10A kit I built and compare it to this one – that was just one page – this will hopefully be written on many more. The other plane was a fast build for a purpose – this one uses the same Academy kit but…

  Dick Stein

  July 3, 2023

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Civil aircraft, design, frugality, Light plane, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  Academy, Fire Spotter, gift kit, North American

• North American Bronco – A Quick Build

  

  This North American OV-10 model has a rather chequered history – it was sold twice and gifted three times before it was built. It is just this report on my column because it was a quick build. It started life in Korea as an Academy model, made its way to Japan into someone’s stash, and…

  Dick Stein

  February 4, 2023

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Box Art, History, Hobby Shops, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Secondhand

  gift kit, Leonardo's, North American, Vietnam

• Spitfire Mk IX – Part One – Never Look A Gift Kit In The Box

  

  I was at dinner with a group of friends in Sydney when one of them pulled out a couple of old 1:72 kits from a shopping bag. They were historic remainders from his teenage stash…and as he’s distanced from that somewhat, they are truly historic. One’s a Matchbox Spitfire and one’s an Airfix Buccaneer. I…

  Dick Stein

  August 18, 2019

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, Israeli aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  gift kit, Matchbox, nostalgia