Tag: North American

• Another Bronco – Part One – This One Love You Slow Time

  

  Readers can look at a previous post of the North American OV-10A kit I built and compare it to this one – that was just one page – this will hopefully be written on many more. The other plane was a fast build for a purpose – this one uses the same Academy kit but…

  Dick Stein

  July 3, 2023

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Civil aircraft, design, frugality, Light plane, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  Academy, Fire Spotter, gift kit, North American

• North American Bronco – A Quick Build

  

  This North American OV-10 model has a rather chequered history – it was sold twice and gifted three times before it was built. It is just this report on my column because it was a quick build. It started life in Korea as an Academy model, made its way to Japan into someone’s stash, and…

  Dick Stein

  February 4, 2023

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Box Art, History, Hobby Shops, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Secondhand

  gift kit, Leonardo's, North American, Vietnam

• North American Yale – Part Two – Cage Fighting

  

  Or fighting with a cage, if you prefer. The business of welding together a plastic cockpit frame inside a plastic fuselage. Faint hearts need not apply. I have served my cage apprenticeship on a Special Hobby Avro Anson with a resin tubing structure and as a result I have been excused several centuries of Purgatory.…

  Dick Stein

  February 23, 2022

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Model Airplane, Painting, subassembly

  cockpit, North American, RCAF, trainer

• North American Yale – Part One – Exact Fit

  

  When you find a pair of shoes that fit exactly – and they are on special sale – and you have the money – you owe it to your feet to buy them. And the same applies to model kits. I know I’m preaching to the choir here – I mean it’s model kit builders…

  Dick Stein

  February 21, 2022

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  Czech kits, North American, RCAF, trainer

• North American F-100 – Part Three – Dry Fit For The Win

  

  I have taken to adding a new stage to my regular builds – I try to get a mock-up of the basic flying aircraft fitted dry before I reach for the cement bottle. This means taping parts together or even using the Micro Scale temporary adhesive. The benefit of doing it is I catch incipient…

  Dick Stein

  February 2, 2022

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

  dry fit, Italeri, North American

• North American F-100 – Part One – The Start Of A Project

  

  I heard a suggestion a few weeks ago and took it on board – a good idea for the Big Local Plastic Model Show. I hope we are granted the blessing of it and are here to participate – in anticipation of which I have started a project to fill two display tables. It’ll be…

  Dick Stein

  January 31, 2022

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Cold War, Italeri, North American, USAF