Tag: Resin

• Curtiss Model 75 A-4 – Part Two – Interior Precision

  

  I am not a fan of super-detailed cockpits. They seem to be too much trouble for too little reward. But I do admire the AML company for the all-resin cockpit tub produced for this fighter plane. I has popped together with a precision that is rarely seen. Not without effort, I might add. Resin parts…

  Dick Stein

  November 8, 2025

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Czech models, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Resin, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  cockpit, detail, dry fit, Resin

• Curtiss Model 75 A-4 – Part One – Mohawk IV

  

  This ain’t my first rodeo, nor my first Curtiss Model 75. Review the old posts and find the Revell kit I built in Norwegian colours. This kit, however is a new variant of this interesting aircraft, and an entirely new kit maker as well. AML seems to be a Czech firm who supply entire kits…

  Dick Stein

  November 7, 2025

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Decals, design, Instructions, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Curtiss, Czech kit, new, Photo Etch, Resin

• Potez 63-11 – Part Two – Having A Fit

  

  A tight fit. The Azur model of the Potez 63-11 is probably fairly old in the Czech modelling world. I think the firm that makes these models has retired the name in favour of their ” Special Hobby ” marque. This one is from the multi-media days of styrene/resin/brass. So far the fit of the…

  Dick Stein

  October 5, 2024

  1:72 scale, Czech models, design, French aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  cockpits, Czech kits, Resin

• Fairey Battle Mk I – Part Four – Broken On The Wheel

  

  In Prague they have a tradition of throwing difficult people out of third-story windows. Look it up. I can certainly agree with this when it comes to scale model designers who decide to make a resin hub and separate injected plastic blades for a propeller. I should be happy to set punji stakes or hungry…

  Dick Stein

  July 27, 2024

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Czech models, design, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, subassembly

  propellers, Resin

• CAC Boomerang – Part One – The Pale Pachyderm

  

  I’m glad that I am adventurous – for a person who doesn’t leave the house much. And I’m glad that I have friends who are also adventurous – it leads me to the sort of things I normally would not do. The Tasman Models 1:72 kit of the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation’s native fighter plane of…

  Dick Stein

  November 3, 2021

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Resin, Scale Models, Utility Models

  Australia, CAC Boomerang, RAAF, Resin, Tasman Models

• Lockheed RT 33 – Part Two – Do they Drink At Lunch In Prague?

  

  I’m willing to bet they do – it would explain a number of the design decisions that are found in Czech short-run kits. Not that I should complain, but I am slightly puzzled as to why basic components cannot be moulded as parts of the main fuselage or wing sections. They obviously have the skill…

  Dick Stein

  May 27, 2021

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Czech models, design, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Resin, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  injection moulding, Resin, Sword models