Tag: paint schemes

• Douglas Skyray F4D – Part Two – Peacetime Colours

  

  Or at least as peaceful as a Cold War aircraft could get… I am always happy to see military aircraft in bright colours – the yellow wings of the pre-war US Navy – the dazzling squadron codes of the pre-war RAF – the bright stripes of the pre-war Italians. Because brightly coloured aircraft are not…

  Dick Stein

  June 19, 2024

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

  Cold War, paint schemes

• Mureaux 117 – Part One – The Bargain Heller

  

  Again a good opportunity to build a by-gone kit has come my way – a legacy kit being cleared out at a very low price. Part of that may have been prompted by the appearance of the box – squashed and scuffed, and of a Heller era that seems crude to our eyes. It debuted…

  Dick Stein

  June 6, 2024

  1:72 scale, Box Art, Colour Schemes, Decals, French aircraft, frugality, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  French aircraft, old kits, paint schemes

• Imagination Vs Reality

  

  How much of either powers your scale modelling? In my own case, less of the former in individual models but a great deal of it in major dioramas. I invent air forces and their air fields as settings for soi disant accurate models. Self deception at its finest. What of the model car makers? I…

  Dick Stein

  July 12, 2023

  Colour Schemes, design, Dioramas, display, Miniature Philosophy, Model building club, Model cars, model trucks, Painting, prototypes, Scale Models, Weathering

  fantasies, paint schemes, Scale Models