Tag: Modifications

• Potez 540T – Part Three – It’s A Fish…

  

  But not the sort that you choose to eat – Rick Stein would throw this one back. Dick Stein is not so fussy. The addition of the nose fairing is marginally better than the glass turret, but it has given a deep-sea blobfish look to the poor old Potez – in grey primer it is…

  Dick Stein

  June 26, 2023

  1:72 scale, airliner, Civil aircraft, design, French aircraft, frugality, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  Modifications, Potez, ugly fish

• Gloster Meteor – Part Two – The Wrong Road

  

  I would be the first person to admit my mistakes – at least the ones I cannot hide under the rug. Or blame on other people. This kit prompted a mistake. I thought that I was going to make an Israeli Meteor to be displayed in 1956 colours at my air museum at Schmatterim. The…

  Dick Stein

  November 11, 2021

  1:72 scale, Israeli aircraft, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized, workflow

  Airfix, Gloster Meteor, Modifications

• Matchbox Helldiver – Part Two – Wing It Or Sling It?

  

  Here’s a dilemma. I’ve pictures of the prototype SB2C with folded wings. And the Matchbox kit has folding wings. But they are folded on the toy principle and look bloody awful. I have low standards but every now and then something shows up that undercuts them. I have built folded wings on an Airfix Devastator…

  Dick Stein

  August 28, 2021

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, design, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  Matchbox, Modifications, tail, wings