Tag: RAF

• Percival Provost T Mk1 – Part One – The Box In A Box

  

  I was delighted when my friend Warren presented me with this Matchbox Percival Provost – inasmuch as it has passed through three sets of hands for free I hope to make mine the last ones before it becomes an airplane. It was found inside another model box purchased at a secondhand arms and militaria fair…

  Dick Stein

  February 7, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, finances, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Secondhand

  Matchbox, Percival, RAF, trainer

• North American Mustang I – Part Five – A Dappled Horse

  

  Well, the Mustang is on charge and will be conveyed to RCAF Wet Dog in a day or so. It is as fresh as many coats of paint and varnish can make it – the decision to begin weathering the models has been postponed for a few months. The final result of this experimental build…

  Dick Stein

  March 14, 2019

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, camouflage, Chinese models, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, RCAF Wet Dog, Scale Models, Weathering

  Hobby Boss, Mustang, RAF

• De Havilland Mosquito Mk II – Part One – 12:35 In The Morning

  

  6 July, 1944. Western France – near the Pas de Calais. One of HM aircraft on a Serrate mission was lost. It crashed with my wife’s uncle in it. His navigator was killed, he evaded capture, and was eventually delivered back to England by the French Resistance. He wasn’t allowed to fly over enemy territory…

  Dick Stein

  September 11, 2018

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models, Stein’s Air World, Uncategorized

  1:72 airplane, De Havilland Mosquito, night fighter, RAF, Tamiya

• Bristol Benheim Mk I – Part Four – The Museum Aircraft

  

  So why does a Bristol Blenheim Mk I bomber – a quintessentially early war RAF light bomber – show up in the Bomber Command hall of Stein’s Air World? I mean apart from the fact that there was a kit on the shelf at Stanbridge’s Hobby Shop and I had money in my pocket… If…

  Dick Stein

  August 24, 2018

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, British aircraft, camouflage, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Museums, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Air World Museum, Bristol, Canada, RAAF, RAF, RCAF

• Bristol Blenheim Mk I – Part One – The Cigarette Card Plane

  

  When I was a child in Canada in the 5th grade, I was friends with a little English kid who had migrated with his parents to our mining town. I can’t remember much about him but I have one picture fixed firmly in my mind – he had a magnificent collection of English cigarette cards.…

  Dick Stein

  August 21, 2018

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

  Blenheim, bomber, Bristol, British, RAF