Tag: Mach 2

• Convair 440 – Part Eight – Out Past Where The Buses Run

  

  Those of you who are Kinky Friedman fans will know this phrase. It applies to a lot of the work on the Mach 2 Convair 440. Not the least being the choice to eschew the kit decals – big troublesome designs for an airline I do not know – and to paint the thing as…

  Dick Stein

  October 5, 2018

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, Model Airplane, Painting, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Convair 440, Mach 2, RCAF

• Convair 440 – Part One – The Visitation

  

  I went to a new hobby shop – Hobby Mania. It was up a flight of stairs and shared premises with an accountant’s office. No-wonder – the accountant has the shop as a personal hobby venture. He must be doing well enough – he had an employee there to show me the room of stock…

  Dick Stein

  September 27, 2018

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Hobby Shops, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Convair 440, Hobby Mania, Mach 2