Tag: LGB

• The 2018 Catalogue

  

  I have just been doing my extensive professional research…that’s code for surfing the internet…and studied the 2018 catalogue for a firm that makes model trains. They are a historic firm that entered into the plastic toy trade at least 50 years ago from a long association with the tinware business. I had the privilege of…

  Dick Stein

  September 1, 2018

  Collecting, Model trains, Modelling Supplies, Toys, Uncategorized

  large scale trains, Lehmann, LGB

• Precision Need Not Be Prestigious

  

  Nor need it be pricey.* I came to that conclusion each time I approached the Hobby Boss Brewster Buffalo kit – even at the wash and trim stage – where I got the mould-parting agent off the basic sprues and then air-dried them. And then started cutting parts from them and building subassembies. This was…

  Dick Stein

  July 8, 2018

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Chinese models, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Hobby Boss, LGB, Mould-making, Stainz loco