Tag: RAAF

• A Happy Landing At RAAF Cunoath Downs

  

  The ship is down safely – sitting in its own box all complete – ready for transfer to the WWII forward base at RAAF Cunoath Downs. It’s a secret airfield in the middle of the Western Australian bush. Secret only in the sense that no-one goes past it on the road because it’s too far…

  Dick Stein

  March 19, 2018

  1:72 scale, Czech models, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, Painting, RAAF Cunoath Downs, Scale Models

  Northrop Delta 1D, RAAF, transport

• Patchy Is As Patchy Does

  

  And no-one is patchier than me… I watched a YouTube post some time ago from a modeller who was making extremely precise masks for spray painting by using his inkjet printer. I believe he was printing on a self-adhesive paper and planned to stick this onto plastic models. He was very concerned about scaling the…

  Dick Stein

  March 17, 2018

  1:72 scale, Czech models, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, YouTube videos

  camouflage, inkjet printing, Masking, RAAF

• The Bluebird Of Happiness-So-Far

  

  The undersides of aircraft are pretty interesting places. If you are going to be flying in one, you are intensely interested in whether or not oil, petrol, or hydraulic fluid is leaking out down there – you’ll be even more concerned if this is also the case when it is at 4000 ft. For the…

  Dick Stein

  March 15, 2018

  1:72 scale, Czech models, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  Northrop Delta, RAAF, underside painting