Tag: Schmattarim

• Airfix Auster – Part Three – 13 Aleph Ready For The Sun

  

  This started as an iced Antarctic confection, but the Auster has turned out a baked desert dessert. At least it will be – there is a real 13-Aleph in the Hatzerim Air Force Museum under cover, but this 13 will be sitting out all day in the sun. Hence the staff have dropped a tarp…

  Dick Stein

  August 23, 2025

  1:72 scale, frugality, Israeli aircraft, Light plane, Model Airplane, Museums, research, Scale Models

  Auster, desert museum, Schmattarim

• Tasman Airspeed Oxford Mk I – Part Seven – G-AMFJ

  

  Or 2813 of 141 Sqn. This aircraft is counted as an Airspeed Consul – the civilian version of an armed Oxford. It was acquired in 1951 and flown by the 141 Sqn. The type was used as a VIP aircraft, multi-engine training, navigation and radio training, and as a light transport. It lasted only until…

  Dick Stein

  April 8, 2025

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, History, Israeli aircraft, Model Airplane, research, Uncategorized

  Airspeed, IDF, Schmattarim, transport

• Douglas Skyhawk – Part Four – Park It Under The Trees, Izzy

  

  If you’re going to work on the wiring in 218 after lunch you’d better tarp it over in the morning or the thing will be red-hot inside. Hanging with your head upside down under the instrument panel with sweat running in your eyes is not conducive to precision work. And the flies don’t help, either.…

  Dick Stein

  March 27, 2021

  1:72 scale, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Israeli aircraft, Lacquer, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, Museums, Painting, Scale Models

  bombs, repair shop, Schmattarim

• IAI Kfir C-1 – Part Four – Clean And Neat Lion Cub

  

  Pardon any typographical errors in this post, but I have just finished two days of decalling and I am now waiting by the side of the road for the wagon from the asylum to pick me up. I shall send the bill for treatment to Cartograf. The Italeri Kfir is ready for the clean section…

  Dick Stein

  August 9, 2020

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Israeli aircraft, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  Israel, modern fighter, Schmattarim

• Airfix Mosquito – Part Three – Look Quickly

  

  I suggest that you look quickly at the IAF Mosquito in today’s illustrations – it may be the last time that you will see it in such a clean condition. It is just about to be wheeled out onto the hardstand at Schmattarim Air Base to join the museum of aircraft that have been in…

  Dick Stein

  January 28, 2020

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Israeli aircraft, Model Airplane, Museums, Scale Models

  De Havilland Mosquito, IAF, Schmattarim

• De Havilland Vampire T.11 – Part One – Going Batty

  By now you probably feel you have reason to question my sanity – I am starting to build my third De Havilland Vampire in 1:72 scale. One DH.100 as a Canadian museum piece, then a Swiss Vampire with extended nose, and now a two-seat trainer. What is it with these bats? Well, the first was…

  Dick Stein

  January 10, 2020

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

  De Havilland Vampire, REAF, Schmattarim