Tag: photo recconnaissance

• Republic Thunderflash – Part Five – Box Art

  

  I tips me lid to the artist who painted this Republic RF-84F Thunderflash on the kit box. His rendition proved to be the most helpful reference I could find for this aircraft. I find colour call-outs fun to look at as snapshots of what one might make from the box. But I still want other…

  Dick Stein

  April 21, 2021

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, German aircraft, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Uncategorized

  Cold War, photo recconnaissance, Republic, West Germany

• Seversky P-35 – Part Two – Well, I’ll Be Darned, Eh?

  

  Washing and tidying up the Special Hobby 1:72 kit today, I left it to dry in the warm workshop. WHen it came time to repack it for he club tomorrow, I noticed a pair of amazing things: There is a spare seat.A little one, but there it is. 2.    There is a big rectangular…

  Dick Stein

  September 4, 2020

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

  photo recconnaissance, Seversky P-35, Sweden

• Lockheed P-38 – Part Four – The Drive Shaft

  

  The Hobby Boss model of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning has something I have not seen before on any plastic model airplane – it has a driveshaft. Or put more accurately, it has two. All the other models I’ve encountered have had just the opposite – a precise hole in the crankcase or nose where a…

  Dick Stein

  May 23, 2018

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

  aero engines, Lockheed P-38, photo recconnaissance