Tag: sanding

• Swedish NA-16 – Part Three – Dr. Phil

  

  Not the TV chap – I’m thinking this kit should have been built by the famous Irish dentist: Dr. Phil McCavity. Six separate applications and removals of two grades of putty plus a styrene sheet fitted to the worst of the gaps. All done in a cheerful frame of mind and without the aid of…

  Dick Stein

  July 6, 2025

  1:72 scale, damage control, frugality, Model Airplane, subassembly, Swedish aircraft, Utility Models

  despairing, filling, sanding

• Tasman Airspeed Oxford Mk I – Part Four – While The Goo Sets…

  

  Busy your hands, to stop your mind from screaming. The engine cowlings on this model have become a standard mark in my workshop. They form the nadir from which anything else is better. I have joined the halves and lit a votive candle. The interior is bare, but surprisingly neat. It is simple, of course,…

  Dick Stein

  April 5, 2025

  1:72 scale, airliner, British aircraft, damage control, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly

  cowlings, filling, pins, sanding

• US Navy Phantom II – Part Two – The Sixties Return

  

  In my case, without the hair… I don’t care – if the era came back with half this much success, I would be delighted. So far the old Airfix Series 3 kit is doing very well indeed. The basic structure went together at one afternoon session. However, it was never going to go together without…

  Dick Stein

  November 23, 2024

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized, workflow

  cementation, filling, sanding

• Martin B 10 Bomber – Part Five – Naked Whale

  

  Well, you can see the corrugated strakes on the top of the Martin, and I assure you they are there on the bottom as well. I’m going to be grateful when it comes to the decals that – unlike the JU 52 – these ripples do not interfere with the decorations. The seams of the…

  Dick Stein

  June 30, 2021

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Czech models, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly

  filler, Martin bomber, sanding

• Dornier Do.17Z – Part Two – A FROG Of A Different Colour

  

  The experience of the FROG Dornier is interesting. The kit is an older mould and has raised panel lines but no rivets. I don’t mind as it will have a dark finish anyway. But it is an older kit. Thus the fit in some places is approximate. The fuselage is excellent, the wing box assembly commendably…

  Dick Stein

  January 18, 2021

  1:72 scale, Czech models, German aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, subassembly, Workshop

  Dornier, fillers, FROG, sanding

• Blackburn Buccaneer – Part Three – Well, It Is…

  

  …What it is… The engine compartment is full now, and it’s time to mate the sections of fuselage and attach the wings and tail. The initial dismay at the fit of these things can be alleviated with a little discrete carving and sanding, and the lips of the mouldings at least come pretty close to…

  Dick Stein

  October 28, 2019

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Scale Models, subassembly, workflow

  Blackburn, filling, sanding