Tag: names

• General Dynamics F-1 – Part Two – Viper!

  

  Well, I have decided to go with the Air Force crews and call this the Viper. I am also less than impressed with a company the calls itself by such a generic name; General Dynamics. Sounds as if they could be making light switches or selling time-share weeks. I think they should change the name…

  Dick Stein

  February 28, 2024

  1:144 scale, American aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Decals, design, Enamel, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  General Dynamics, names, tactical fighter

• Douglas Digby Mk I – Part Three – The Name…

  

  I am puzzled. The name doesn’t seem to fit. When US airplanes got a name – as opposed to a model number  – they generally got one that tied in with an established pattern – as a for instance, take the Boeing series of bombers – from B 17 to B-52 in four steps –…

  Dick Stein

  July 3, 2020

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Douglas Digby, names, RCAF

• ” Paging Mr. Styne. Paging Mr. Styne “

  

  I won two trophies today for a very minor achievement – a model diorama at a toy collector’s fair – but it will involve me in a major change to my life. I am going to have to become an entirely new man. My past life must be discarded. I started life as Richard William…

  Dick Stein

  June 23, 2018

  Collecting, Miniature Philosophy, Modelling exhibitions, Uncategorized

  changes, names, trophies