Tag: Israel

• Avia S-199 – Part One – The Mule Cometh

  

  I have been on the look-out for a year for a 1:72 model of an Avia S-199 fighter plane. Wouldn’t you know…a call at the local specialty shop for another product ( which I couldn’t get ) and a browse on the shelves led to the wonderful discovery. It was not a cheap kit, but…

  Dick Stein

  March 5, 2020

  1:72 scale, Israeli aircraft, Model Airplane, Museums, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Avia, Czechoslovakia, Israel

• North American AT6 – Part Five – One From Column A…

  

  And one from Column B. That’s how you make an air force out of bits from the scrap heap. That’s how the Israelis did it in ’48. I’ve been reading of the formation of the IAF and the war of independence against the Egyptians, Jordanians, Lebanese, Syrians, and British. It would appear that the supply…

  Dick Stein

  May 18, 2019

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models, Secondhand, Uncategorized, Weathering

  air force, IDF, Israel, spare parts