Tag: protoype

• Boeing B-17 – Part Three – A Slight Detour

  

  My projected mail plane needs to lose the upper and ball turret. The Academy people have not supplied blanking plates for these two gun positions so I need to occlude them with some scratch building. However, I started out with the basic cockpit and bomb bay assembly. The interior is supposedly chromate green according to…

  Dick Stein

  February 29, 2020

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  B17, protoype, RCAF, turrets

• Boulton Paul P82 – One Special Day

  

  One special day in 1938 the Boulton Paul P82 – the turret fighter that was to become the Defiant – was rolled out onto a field for the men from the Air Ministry to look at. They had seen it without its turret nine months earlier, but this time it had teeth. It was still…

  Dick Stein

  January 13, 2019

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models

  Air Ministry, Boulton Paul, protoype