Tag: Soviets

• Yak 23 – Part One – Front Line Fighter?

  

  Provided you are smart enough to put the front line as far away from you as possible. This was the thinking of the Soviet VVS when they donated Yak 23 fighters to the Poles and Czechs in the 1950’s. The Soviets had the MiG15 to defend the Motherland against the west and the inferior Yak…

  Dick Stein

  May 20, 2025

  1:72 scale, Czech models, frugality, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Soviet aircraft

  Cold War, Czechs, Soviets

• Austin Armoured Car – Part Two – Precision Product

  

  Say what you will about some of the eastern bloc modelling companies turning out marginal models – and we have all see Mikro Mir and Amodel and such – there are some companies on the sharp edge of the hobby. This is the case with this Austin armoured car. There is enough detail in the…

  Dick Stein

  September 1, 2022

  1:72 scale, design, Military models, Russian models, subassembly

  AUstin, revolution, Soviets