Tag: IAF

• Schmattarim

  

  Stop groaning. It’s my model airport and I get to make the jokes. Actually, it’s a museum layout – a very useful way to display a variety of aircraft. In this case they are Israeli, and the idea is patterned on the real IAF museum at Hatzerim. I’ve built enough models to mount two separate…

  Dick Stein

  August 10, 2024

  1:72 scale, Collecting, damage control, Dioramas, display, Israeli aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling exhibitions

  IAF, museum diorama

• Vautour IIN – Part One – Who Made it?

  

  I initially thought it was Dassault. Then I thought it was SNCAO or SNCASE and then Pret a Manger and then eventually I didn’t care any more. It was designed and produced by someone in France, for some reason, at some stage of the game. Many were made and quite a few flew. Past that…

  Dick Stein

  July 21, 2021

  1:72 scale, Czech models, design, Israeli aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Dassault, IAF, Special Hobby, Suez colour scheme

• Douglas Skyhawk – Part Three – Freehand

  

  The Skyhawk is almost done, and so am I. I elected to give this one the full pre-shading and then a freehand three-tone camouflage scheme…as much to see if i could do it as to make it look authentic. I am not sure about the authenticity, but I did discover that I do not like…

  Dick Stein

  March 26, 2021

  1:72 scale, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Israeli aircraft, Lacquer, Masking, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  IAF, three-tone, wax masks

• Dassault Ouragan – Part One – Right To The Door

  

  This is one of the kits that was brought to our model club by a chap selling a stash – though another member has suggested that they were the result of a trip to the orient and a suitcase full of plastic brought back home. Some people think this an imposition on the builder –…

  Dick Stein

  January 23, 2021

  1:72 scale, Czech models, French aircraft, Israeli aircraft, Model Airplane, Model building club, Museums, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Dassault, IAF, jet, Valom kit

• Consolidated Catalina – Part Five – 3402 At Last

  

  I finally figured out what I liked about the Israeli 3401 Catalina that is displayed at Hatzerim – they have painted it a shade of blue that has always called to me. My first car, the late lamented Renault 10, was painted this blue-grey and it has set a lead that I’ve followed for many…

  Dick Stein

  June 21, 2020

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Decals, Israeli aircraft, Lacquer, Masking, Model Airplane, Museums, Painting, research, Scale Models

  balance, Catalina, IAF, Schmattarim Museum

• Airfix Mosquito – Part Three – Look Quickly

  

  I suggest that you look quickly at the IAF Mosquito in today’s illustrations – it may be the last time that you will see it in such a clean condition. It is just about to be wheeled out onto the hardstand at Schmattarim Air Base to join the museum of aircraft that have been in…

  Dick Stein

  January 28, 2020

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Israeli aircraft, Model Airplane, Museums, Scale Models

  De Havilland Mosquito, IAF, Schmattarim

• AIrfix Mosquito – Part Two – The Lists…

  

  There can be two lists connected with every scale model airplane kit; the list of things that went right and the list of things that went wrong. You’re only in trouble if the lists contain the same items…Here’s the good one for this Airfix Mosquito: It was free. I had special decals saved up for…

  Dick Stein

  January 27, 2020

  1:72 scale, Israeli aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  Airfix, De Havilland Mosquito, IAF