Tag: rescue aircraft

• All My Best Models Cost Under $ 10

  

  Because they are the poor, sad runts of the hobby shop litter – or the nearly-dead ones that just pass from stash to stash without ever getting built. I give them hope and dignity. I clip their parts off the distorted sprue trees without making noises of obvious disgust. I sand off flash and rivets.…

  Dick Stein

  May 21, 2026

  1:72 scale, Collecting, damage control, frugality, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Uncategorized, Utility Models

  frugal modelling, rescue aircraft

• Grumman Albatross – Part Three – Before 1965

  

  If you look closely at some of my RCAF aircraft, they look odd; there is no lightning flash down the sides and the the flag is wrong. Wrong. The planes are pre-1965 with the old national flag on the tail. And if you look closely you’ll see that it flies with the Union Jack to…

  Dick Stein

  February 18, 2024

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, damage control, Decals, Model Airplane, Painting, RCAF Doukhobor Bay, research, Scale Models

  flags, RCAF, rescue aircraft