Tag: improvisation

• RAAF Spitfire Mk Vc – Part Four – Where You Can Stick It

  

  On your underside… On the workbench – in the spray booth. And with the comforting knowledge that it won’t fall off. I have tried a dozen different ways of holding scale model aircraft during the painting process; by the tail, by the nose, with a stick up the jet pipe, etc. All have their uses,…

  Dick Stein

  November 25, 2025

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Painting, Tools, Workshop

  blocks, improvisation, Painting, supports

• Seversky P-35 – Part Three – That Yamaguchi Moment

  

  Well, that’ll teach me…but I am not sure what. I was going so well with my Special Hobby Seversky P-35 model. I had used most of the photo etch in the cockpit successfully and even managed the photo-etch aileron horns on the underside of the wing. And the new Super-Metallic Super Silver from Mr. Color…

  Dick Stein

  September 5, 2020

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

  improvisation, setbacks, Seversky P-35