Tag: interior detail

• RCAF Twin Otter – Part Three – Bare But Clean

  

  After building a number of Airfix and Italeri 1:72 models with rather comprehensive interiors, I am not sure I’m pleased with the approach Revell have taken with the Twin Otter. The cockpit is fine; seats, control columns, and instruments in a closed space. Painted light grey/dark grey and with the added fillip of seatbelt decals…

  Dick Stein

  April 18, 2020

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

  De Havilland, interior detail, RCAF Twin Otter

• Blackburn Buccaneer – Part Two – The Hollow Man

  No, wait – that was Bing Crosby. This Airfix model of the naval strike fighter is nowhere near as empty as he was…but nevertheless there’s a lot of unused space inside. Note that the dear old instruction sheet makes this painfully clear – though I will say that it is entirely adequate for the job.…

  Dick Stein

  October 27, 2019

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Secondhand, subassembly

  Airfix, interior detail, old mould

• Piasecki Flying Banana – Part Two – My Ambition Acheived

  

  I have nursed an ambition for some while – ever since I saw pictures of a number of western helicopters that had red troop seats. The seat backs seemed to be made of red nylon webbing and hung loosely over solid fabric bottoms. I suspect they were a dual purpose thing – the solid cloth…

  Dick Stein

  April 3, 2019

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

  interior detail, Piasecki, troop seats