Tag: interior

• RCAF Wellington Mk II – Part Two – Missing The Point

  

  The new Airfix Wellington Mk II has a full set of interior parts. These are proper injection moulded parts – not resin bits on a block or impossible slivers of brass. If you follow the very detailed instruction diagrams you can end up with a fully kitted-out bomber interior. Yet Airfix suggest that you can…

  Dick Stein

  January 6, 2025

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, subassembly

  design, geodetic, interior

• Airspeed Envoy – Part Two – Squeezy

  

  Say what you will about the British being a stuffy and stand-offish nation, when they make a small airliner they make sure that everyone is chummy on the flight. Either that or the moulds for these seats are a little wide. You can get in the door and possibly into the back three seats, but…

  Dick Stein

  September 25, 2022

  1:72 scale, airliner, British aircraft, design, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly

  Airspeed, catering, interior, seating

• Heinkel HE 111 – Part Two – Nothing Looks Like An Airplane…

  

  You can get into a rut in model airplane building. I do planes that are mostly British or American types. Sometimes a Soviet job, or the rare Japanese one. In all these cases they have distinctive national characteristics quite apart from paint jobs or insignia. There are styles of fuselages, wings, and engines. Some are…

  Dick Stein

  October 26, 2020

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

  Airfix, Heinkel, interior