Tag: New Zealand

• Boeing P26 – Part One – Two Shameful Confessions

  

  I have two painful confessions to make in regard to the Boeing P-26 peashooter fighter plane. The first was in 1961 when I was in the 9th grade. I formed a friendship with a kid in my grade at school who was also an enthusiastic model airplane builder. He introduced me to matte paints –…

  Dick Stein

  May 19, 2021

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Colour Schemes, History, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Boeing, New Zealand, Revell

• Douglas Dauntless – Part Four – Old No. 18

  

  Well, the Dountless is done. And a nicer kit I could not have asked for. As the firm that kitted it also makes an Avenger and several other planes, I shall return to the shop where I bought it, chloroform the lone staff member, and run away with them. It’s handy having a source of…

  Dick Stein

  August 3, 2020

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Decals, Model Airplane, New Zealand aircraft, Painting, Polish models, Scale Models, Tabletop Photography

  Douglas Dauntless, New Zealand, washes

• Douglas Dauntless – Part Three – Perhaps It IS A Dountless…

  

  Maybe they know something I don’t. In my relentless pursuit of knowledge – also known as surfing the net – I discovered that there were quite a few RNZAF Douglas SBD-4 and SBD-5 aircraft used in the South Pacific. There are a number of period photos of them in flight and on the ground in…

  Dick Stein

  August 2, 2020

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, New Zealand aircraft, research, Uncategorized

  Douglas Dauntless, New Guinea, New Zealand