Tag: photo-reconnaissance

• Mirage III CJ – Part One – The Very Thing

  

  I set myself the task of building Israeli aircraft for a desert museum airfield – this kit was sitting on the shelves of a specialist dealer when I went to look for decals. How could I resist? It shows a horrible modification of a beautiful aircraft on the box top…but the sides promise the original…

  Dick Stein

  January 24, 2026

  1:72 scale, French aircraft, Israeli aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  Israel, Mirage, photo-reconnaissance

• Savoia-Marchetti SM.81 – Part Three – Airframe

  

  We have an aircraft – not just parts in a box. The wing fit of the Italeri SM.81 was darned near perfect – a few scrapes of a modelling knife on the internal bearing surfaces of both wings and there was hardly a gap to be seen. It gave excellent purchase for a slightly thicker…

  Dick Stein

  October 22, 2022

  1:72 scale, Civil aircraft, design, Italian aircraft, Model Airplane, Ruritanian Aircraft, Uncategorized

  photo-reconnaissance, Ruritania, Savoia marchetti

• Republic Thunderflash – Part One – The Flying Photographer

  

  Without realising it I completed a couple of builds that could start a new shelf in the Air Museum – and now I have No. 3 and No. 4 in the stash; a Republic RF84F Thunderflash and A Lockheed RT33. Together with the P-38 PRU and Spitfire PRXIX they are the eyes in the sky…

  Dick Stein

  April 17, 2021

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

  Cold War, photo-reconnaissance, Republic, Sword