Tag: Holland

• Fokker D.XXI – Part One -SOOTB Fighter

  

  I have so few Dutch aircraft in my collection that this stash buy is a real asset – Let us hope the kit is up to MPM standards. New MPM standards, I hasten to add. The canopy is clear injection and there is only the wretched resin propeller boss and separate blades to gloom the…

  Dick Stein

  August 8, 2025

  1:72 scale, Box Art, Collecting, Czech models, Dutch aircraft, Model Airplane, Museums, Scale Models

  Fokker, Holland, WW2

• Koolhoven Fk 58 – Part One – One Of The Few

  

  Not the RAF Few – the Dutch few – few made and few supplied. An export order from France. This Azur kit has fallen into my eager hands through a stash sale and is everything that the proper Czech short-run kit should be; obscure, and composed of styrene plastic, acetate, brass and polyester resin. The…

  Dick Stein

  September 25, 2024

  1:72 scale, Dutch aircraft, French aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  Czech kit, France, Holland, Koolhoven

• Lockheed Ventura – Part Four – Over Holland

  

  My determination to build this aircraft as an RCAF plane meant I did some research about it. The first author I turn to for most of my RCAF builds is Harald Skaarup – and he did not fail me. I found an overhead view of just this airplane in WW2 with a Canadian crew bombing…

  Dick Stein

  September 13, 2024

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, History, Model Airplane, Modelling exhibitions, Painting, research, Uncategorized

  Holland, Lockheed, RCAF