Tag: seaplanes

• Making Water On The Workbench

  

  And in cold weather, too… I needed a harbour with water – dry water – to display my float planes. No good just posing them on a glass shelf like dried cod – they needed to look like they were in their natural element. No time, and no inclination, to do the complex water-building that…

  Dick Stein

  July 13, 2024

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Dioramas, display, frugality, Model Airplane, Modelling exhibitions, RCAF GLEET BAY, Scale Models, Self Reliance, Uncategorized

  harbours, seaplanes, water sets

• Aichi Seiran – Part Two – The Trolley

  

  This is quite the most detailed trolley I have ever seen. Seaplanes and float-planes are wonderful birds in the air and slippery fish on the surface of the water, but sad encumbrances back at the air base. Unless they are amphibians like the USAF Albatross, they cannot land on their own wheels and need something…

  Dick Stein

  May 28, 2023

  1:72 scale, design, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models

  Aichi, beaching, float-planes, seaplanes