Tag: setbacks

• Morane-Saulnier N – Part One – Off The Horse, On The Horse

  

  I had fallen off the horse. A model that was proceeding well became bogged down with a bad paint choice and nasty wash job – incompatible chemistry. Efforts to rectify it made it worse – parts were bent, then broken. It looked appalling, and I knew that every time I saw the finished product it…

  Dick Stein

  September 1, 2021

  1:72 scale, French aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized, workflow

  mojo, setbacks, simple model

• Seversky P-35 – Part Three – That Yamaguchi Moment

  

  Well, that’ll teach me…but I am not sure what. I was going so well with my Special Hobby Seversky P-35 model. I had used most of the photo etch in the cockpit successfully and even managed the photo-etch aileron horns on the underside of the wing. And the new Super-Metallic Super Silver from Mr. Color…

  Dick Stein

  September 5, 2020

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

  improvisation, setbacks, Seversky P-35