Tag: painted insignia

• Avia S-199 – Part Five – ” Daddy, Why Is that Man Swearing? “

  

  ” He’s an aircraft modeller, Dear, and something has gone wrong. ” The something started out going right. I managed to print out a sheet of Magen David emblems on the epson on strips of masking tape. I then transferred the tape to a cutting board and carefully made the roundels and the stars as separate…

  Dick Stein

  March 9, 2020

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Decals, Israeli aircraft, Lacquer, Masking, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Avia, Israeli aircraft, painted insignia

• Tail Feathers

  

  I have always been curious about anything connected to the decoration of aircraft. Look out your picture book of WWII aircraft and turn to the RAF section. Note the insignia applied to the average fighter or bomber: a. Two upper wing roundels in red and blue – in some cases quite dark but quite large.…

  Dick Stein

  March 2, 2020

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, British aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, French aircraft, German aircraft, Italian aircraft, Japanese aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Painting, research, Soviet aircraft, Uncategorized

  painted insignia, RAAF, RAF, RCAF, USAAF, USN