Tag: moulds

• Gloster Javelin FAW 9 – Part Two – Evolving A FROG

  

  I have been googling the Javelin kit I bought and have come to some interesting conclusions – it is the Mister Craft mould but there are marked differences between these two and the original FROG sprue trees for the 1950’s. These chiefly revolve about the addition of a long whale-rib probe on the starboard side…

  Dick Stein

  November 19, 2022

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, design, Model Airplane, Polish models, research, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  FROG, moulds, Poland

• The Easternisation Of the Hobby

  

  When I first started building plastic models in the 1950’s there were few Soviet-bloc models to be found. A few oddities, like the Aurora MiG 19 which proved to be totally imaginary…or the Airfix MiG 15 which was somewhat better. And a lone copy of the Bison bomber that Revell put out in the 60’s.…

  Dick Stein

  June 1, 2022

  1:72 scale, Czech models, design, History, Model Airplane, Model ships, model trucks, Modelling Supplies, Polish models, Russian models, Soviet aircraft, Uncategorized

  model kits, moulds, Russia, Zvezda

• The Oulde Moulde

  

  Or ” How I Learned To Overcome Despair “. It is just as well that I do most ob my building these days in 1:72 or 1:76. If I chose larger scales I would inevitably run up against a plastic kit that had been manufactured in 1823 and then my level of frustration and angst…

  Dick Stein

  September 4, 2019

  1:72 scale, Chinese models, Czech models, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  disappointment, moulds, old models