Tag: helicopter

• Boeing-Vertol CH 147 Chinook – Part Three – Miniature Misgivings

  

  When constructing a kit I have learned to look at the instructions carefully. Then ignore a certain percentage of them – in particular the ones that ask me to glue on small breakable bits early in the piece. If I do so, I condemn myself to great anxiety over them ever after. There is a…

  Dick Stein

  February 9, 2019

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  Boeing-Vertol, helicopter, Masking

• Boeing-Vertol CH 147F Chinook – Part Two – You Want What?

  

  I was taken aback. Normally the makers of plastic models do not expect you to saw them apart as soon as you open the box. Italeri did, though…and it was in a good cause. ‘Cause the Boeing company had made drastic changes to the sides of their Chinook helicopter and Italeri had to follow on.…

  Dick Stein

  February 8, 2019

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, helicopter, Model Airplane, subassembly, Uncategorized

  Boeing-Vertol, Canada, helicopter

• Boeing-Vertol CH 147F Chinook – Part One – The Flying Bread Box

  

  Okay, okay, I know. But that was what it looked like when I opened the box. It is the first of the modern twin-rotor helicopters I’ve encountered and I had no idea what the size of it was going to be. This is the second part of my fee-for-service I earned taking portraits and it…

  Dick Stein

  February 7, 2019

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, helicopter, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Boeing-Vertol, Canada, helicopter

• Bell Iroquois – Part Three – The Local

  

  When my friend Terry paid his bill in model helicopters I was initially going to make a yellow and red RCAF rescue – sauvetage machine of the modern era – the bright colours were the attraction. The Italeri kit is an excellent structure to do this on – it fit together with minimal trimming of…

  Dick Stein

  January 7, 2019

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Uncategorized, Wet Dog Regional Airport

  Bell Iroquois, CFB Cold Lake, helicopter, rescue

• Bell Iroquois – Part Two – It’s ALL Insides

  

  The new Bell Iroquois helicopter is proving to be a series of revelations – occasioned by the fact that I have not seen inside a helicopter since 1961 – and that was one with a giant perspex bubble on the front and a big piston engine. It would appear that the advent of the gas…

  Dick Stein

  January 6, 2019

  American aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Bell Iroquois, helicopter, interiors, Italeri

• Bell Iroquois – Part One – The New Currency

  

  Move over, Dollar. Step aside, Euro. Bitcoin, I laugh at you. I have my own medium of exchange now. I am no longer tied to your paltry numbers. I am accepting payment in model kits. Recently I took a series of portrait photographs for a friend at his request. Rather than charge studio rates to a…

  Dick Stein

  January 5, 2019

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, German aircraft, Military models, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Bell Iroquois, helicopter, Italeri