Tag: museum example

• Avia S-199 – Part Three – What Colour Is The Colour Of An Argument?

  

  Answer: Whatever colour you ask about in a modeller’s paint forum. I went to my computer to google someone else’s opinion about the grey/green colour of an S-199 in Israeli service. I encountered scholarly works that deteriorated into name-calling and vulgarity. I did not see any profile pictures of the writers but I can pretty…

  Dick Stein

  March 7, 2020

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Decals, Israeli aircraft, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, research, Uncategorized

  colour, Lacquer, museum example, paint

• Douglas Dakota – Part One – Ooh, It’s Started…

  

  Okay, okay, I know. It’s just another 1:72 DC-3/C-47/Dakota. But it’s my plane and my workshop and my weblog column so I have a right to be excited. Particularly since I found a bargain. The kit is Italeri and has been out for a while. It sat on the hobby shop shelf next to other Italeri…

  Dick Stein

  August 15, 2018

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Decals, Hobby Shops, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  DAkota, museum example, RCAF, Stein’s Air World

• Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke – Part Two – If It Ain’t Bolingbroke…

  

  In a reversal of other people’s normal behaviour patterns, I commenced doing the Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke before I had thoroughly researched it. I was going on an illustration in an Avia book about Canadian aircraft of the WW2 period and the one I wanted seemed to be similar to the Bristol Blenheim Mk IV. As this…

  Dick Stein

  July 31, 2018

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Model Airplane, Museums, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Bristol, design, museum example