Tag: research

• Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke – Part Three – Are We Hobbyists Or Detectives?

  

  I bought the Avia book about Canadian aircraft of WW2 on a whim at Hylands Bookstore in Melbourne earlier in the year. Hylands is a peripatetic purveyor of printed matter – I have been to 4 of their premises in the CBD of Melbourne over the decades and each time it has been a unique…

  Dick Stein

  August 1, 2018

  1:72 scale, Books, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, research, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Avia press, bookshops, Hylands, internet, research

• The Intellectual In The Little World

  

  Are you an Intellectual? Do you know any intellectuals? Can you define intellectual? I can’t. I can define intellect, but I’m darned if I know where to look for it in other people. If they essay to show it to me I am suspicious of the process, and if they do not show it I…

  Dick Stein

  July 3, 2018

  Miniature Philosophy, Organisation, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  conversation, doing, reading, research, thinking

• The Back Story

  

  I had a consultation one day with the technical adviser…my friend Warren who was in the Air Force. He ran an eye over the mockup of the model airfield and I explained how it was evolving. At the time there were large sheets of paper down representing major structures I wanted to build, as well…

  Dick Stein

  June 29, 2018

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Dioramas, Military models, Model Airplane, Model cars, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Google Earth, plans, plausibility, research