Tag: Scratch building

• All Kit Builders Should Build Something From Scratch

  

  All scratch-builders should build a model from a kit. It is no good looking at someone else’s take on the scale model hobby and pooh poohing it. Or wondering whether they have it better than you. Or wondering whether you could ever do it… Wise experimenters do it simple at first. The long-time kit builder…

  Dick Stein

  August 7, 2026

  1:72 scale, card models, design, display, Doll Houses, Instructions, Miniature Philosophy, Modelling materials, Scale Model Buildings, scratch-building, Uncategorized

  kit building, Scratch building, building building

• MiG 3 – Part Four – Red Eight

  

  Is Hero of Great Patriotic Aviation! Not loved by its pilots, not safe to fly at altitude, not effective as a gun platform….but that didn’t stop PRAVDA from advertising it as the greatest thing since sliced borscht. The model is pleasing, nonetheless – even the slightly odd-looking canopy. Considering that it was an experiment that…

  Dick Stein

  January 19, 2026

  1:72 scale, damage control, design, Model Airplane, Scale Models, scratch-building, Soviet aircraft

  canopies, Scratch building, Soviet aircraft