Tag: model air fields

• Quonset Hut – Part One – The Tin Of Terror

  

  If you have ever spent time in a Nissen or Quonset hut it is subtracted from your stay in Purgatory… These Corrugated Containers Of Discomfort seem to have been erected everywhere in peace and war. Australia housed service personnel, prisoners, and migrants in them, and still has some left in bush towns. They are still…

  Dick Stein

  October 2, 2023

  1:72 scale, card models, design, Modelling materials, Scale Model Buildings, subassembly

  model air fields

• Standin’ On The Tarmac – Part One – The Wrong Stuff

  

  Watchin’ all the birds roll by…dum de dum dum. Should put that to music – might make a good pop song. Standin’ on a scale model tarmac, runway, racetrack, street, or hardstand is the subject of this series of essays. If you are repulsed by mathematics, just look at the pretty pictures. The Little Studio…

  Dick Stein

  April 10, 2019

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Dioramas, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, RCAF Wet Dog, Scale Model Buildings, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  model air fields, Tabletop Photography

• The Play Set

  

  I just figured out why I like my model airfields so much. They are the best play set I’ve ever had. The Louis Marx company play sets that appeared in so many North American Christmas catalogues in the 50’s were wonderful things. You could get Fort Apache, The Alamo, The Army Camp, Cape Canaveral, Cops and…

  Dick Stein

  April 8, 2019

  1:72 scale, airliner, Canadian aircraft, card models, Civil aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, Model cars, Scale Model Buildings, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Wet Dog Regional Airport

  model air fields, photography, play sets, scale