Tag: Reconnaissance

• Potez 63-11 – Part Four – The Fishbowl Of Sadness

  

  I refer to this rather sleek French aircraft in this way as it was witness to the failures of its own armies in the spring of 1940 – from an elegant vantage point. The design is deliberately biased toward the primary mission – reconnaissance – with the pilot up above like a hansom cab driver…

  Dick Stein

  October 7, 2024

  1:72 scale, camouflage, design, French aircraft, History, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  France, Reconnaissance, WW2

• Mitsubishi Babs – Part One – The Name

  

  I have heard it put forward that the designations we give to our land, sea and air models should conform to the original languages of the makers. Thus, this Mitsubishi product should be known as a Ki-15-I Karigane or Army Type 97 Command Reconnaissance Aircraft. Or alternately, the Wild Goose. All of which will bewilder,…

  Dick Stein

  July 8, 2024

  1:72 scale, camouflage, Colour Schemes, design, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  Hasegawa, IJA, Mitsubishi, Reconnaissance

• Douglas RB-66B – Part One – The Shelf Queen

  

  Some kits fly out the door of the hobby shop as soon as they arrive. Some stay until the sales. Some stay until the owner dies and the executors hacksaw the door open. The reasons for this can be many – the kit is horrible – the kit is so obscure than no living being…

  Dick Stein

  December 30, 2021

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, Hobby Shops, Model Airplane, research, Scale Models

  Douglas, good value, Italeri, Reconnaissance