Tag: Mach 2 models

• Convair 440 – Part Seven – Thinking Outside The Box

  

  Getting a kit that is deeply flawed – or undertaking any other modelling task that is doomed to failure from the start – is a wonderful opportunity to put the prop on coarse, turn on the water injection, and shove the throttle past the military stop. You might as well see what the hell happens……

  Dick Stein

  October 2, 2018

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  landing gear, Mach 2 models, resourcefulness., windows

• Convair 440 – Part Six – Methinks They Doth Protest Too Much

  

  Well fresh from the debacle of a failed paint job and the recovery of spirit when the paint job was partially saved, I decided to launch out on a voyage to the New World of Mach 2 kits – I finally hauled the Convair 440 out of the stash and started to work on the…

  Dick Stein

  October 2, 2018

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Workshop

  airlines, cement, Convair 440, Mach 2 models, plastic consistency

• Convair 440 – Part Five – Good Customer Service

  

  Those of you who have read the previous episodes of the Convair 440 might have thought me prejudiced about it. I hope not, because I have just had a wonderful example of good business behaviour. One of the propellers of the kit was a short-shot – the plastic did not go out into one blade.…

  Dick Stein

  September 30, 2018

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Customer service, M. Palix, Mach 2 models