Tag: numbers

• How Many?

  

  And how would one ever find out? I have been amazed at the number of firms that make plastic scale model kits. I knew of perhaps eight when I was a kid – and some of them have long disappeared – but they have been replaced in the shops with what may be hundreds more.…

  Dick Stein

  January 7, 2026

  Collecting, Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Model cars, Model ships, Model trains, model trucks, Modelling Supplies, Uncategorized

  kits, makers, numbers

• Petlyakov Pe-8 – Part Seven – One Of A Hundred

  

  No, I’m wrong. One of 93. The Soviets only made 93 of this bomber. They made them with three different engines, and experimented with the rest of the structure as well. One was used as a trans-oceanic transport to deliver Molotov to the UK and the USA…but the rest were used in penny packets for…

  Dick Stein

  May 7, 2025

  1:72 scale, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Soviet aircraft, Ukrainian models

  Amodel, numbers, Petlyakov, SOviet bomber