Tag: Mannix Ltd

• Lockheed Lodestar – Part Three – But Wait, There’s More…

  

  I am starting to get smarter when I open the box of a new kit – I dive for the instruction sheet. The thing I want to see straight away is the diagram of the sprues with the ID numbers on the bits that I will use and the greyed-out portions that indicate things that…

  Dick Stein

  January 19, 2019

  1:72 scale, airliner, Canadian aircraft, Czech models, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  extra parts, Lockheed Lodestar, Mannix Ltd, Special Hobby

• Lockheed Lodestar – Part Two – Knifing A Lockheed

  

  Those of you who have never seen me in a tee-shirt may be a little startled at the top image. I am hoping it has that effect on the owners of the construction company that used to own the Lockheed Lodestar CF-TDI…the one I am building at present. I sent them a letter yesterday asking whether…

  Dick Stein

  January 18, 2019

  1:72 scale, airliner, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, research, Scale Models, subassembly

  interiors, Lockheed Lodestar, Mannix Ltd, Special Hobby

• Lockheed Lodestar – Part One – Personal Plane

  

  I just barely squeaked into respectability – this column was typed on the 31st of December at about a quarter to midnight. The respectable part was actually starting a kit within the year of buying it. A slow builder, not a hoarder… The Lockheed Lodestar leapt at me from the shelves of Metro Hobbies and…

  Dick Stein

  January 16, 2019

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

  Canada, Lockheed Lodestar, Mannix Ltd