Tag: rockets

• Bristol Beaufighter – Part Four – EE-U

  

  It is not often I get to build a model of a different real aircraft. Of course the makers of the kits pattern them off real ones that they find in museums – and these can be built from the box. But if you do, you are just building what everyone else who has purchased…

  Dick Stein

  September 16, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Bristol Beaufighter, Coastal Command, RCAF, rockets

• Caudron Renault 714 CI – Part Three – The Rocketeer

  

  Well, the Caudron Renault is ready to join the Jagdschwader of the RRAAF armed with the new Ruritanian secret weapon – the rocket. Fussy types will want to know if this is an air-to-air missile or and air-to-ground missile and the answer is yes. After the pilot presses one of four buttons the rocket no…

  Dick Stein

  February 20, 2020

  1:72 scale, French aircraft, Model Airplane, Polish models, Ruritanian Aircraft, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  light fighter, rockets, Ruritania

• What Is It With Rockets?

  

  Every model airplane kit I seem to have purchased recently has come equipped with rockets under the wings. Generally they are the 60 lb. British type on rails, though there is a pair of three-tube US versions as well. I must have two dozen of the things sitting on the shelf – so many, in…

  Dick Stein

  September 8, 2019

  1:72 scale, Model Airplane, Ruritanian Aircraft, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  British patterns, rockets, RRAAF