Tag: Stein’s Air World

• Hawker Seahawk – Part Two – Ess Bend Aviation

  

  Now that the contract for refurbishing aircraft has been let out to Ess bend Aviation in Alberta, Stein’s Air World can concentrate upon preparing museum displays rather than spreading an aircraft over an entire shop for years. This is what happens when in-house restoration is undertaken. Here are a couple of pictures of the work…

  Dick Stein

  February 3, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Israeli aircraft, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, Museums, Scale Models, Stein’s Air World, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Ess Bend Aviation, Hawker Sea Hawk, Stein’s Air World

• Airfix Mosquito – Part Four – Thank You, Mike Grant

  

  Mike Grant had been a pioneer where I wished to go and I was fortunate to discover an magazine article he wrote – sponsored by Airfix – that dealt with exactly the aircraft I was working on. The story was illustrated with a lot of good coloured photos and Mike had gone into the scale…

  Dick Stein

  February 1, 2020

  1:72 scale, Collecting, Colour Schemes, Decals, Dioramas, Israeli aircraft, Miniature photography, Model Airplane, Museums, Scale Models, Stein’s Air World

  Airfix, De Havilland Mosquito, Stein’s Air World

• Blackburn Buccaneer – Part Five – The Exhibit

  

  You may wonder how Stein’s Air World museum can afford to get all these wonderful airplanes for display. The answer is simple; they are gifts given in charity. The new Blackburn Buccaneer Mk 1 seen here is just such a one. It was donated by the Gentleman of the Cloth. Of course, it’s not all…

  Dick Stein

  October 30, 2019

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Museums, Painting, Scale Models, Stein’s Air World

  Blackburn, Buccaneer, museum, prototype, Stein’s Air World

• MiG 15 – Part Eight – Is Ready For Uszhitmi Air Show

  

  The Uszhitmi Air Show has always been the premier display of Soviet – and laterally Russian – air power since the early 20’s. Starting as it did with flying tractors and merry peasant dances on the tarmac between crashes, it progressed to formation passes made the giant creations of the 30’s that were ever larger…

  Dick Stein

  June 13, 2019

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Decals, Model Airplane, Russian models, Soviet aircraft, Stein’s Air World, Uncategorized

  MiG 15, Stein’s Air World, Uszhitmi, Zvezda

• The Museum Approach

  

  Go to your local museum – it doesn’t matter what type you choose; art, science, technology, cars, planes, boats, dolls. If you’ve got an interest, go spark it at the museum. While you are oohing and ahhing at the exhibits, look about you at the facilities. The architecture of a museum can be as interesting…

  Dick Stein

  November 27, 2018

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Australian aircraft, British aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Collecting, Colour Schemes, Dioramas, German aircraft, Italian aircraft, Japanese aircraft, Military models, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Museums, Scale Model Buildings

  Air World Museum, Stein’s Air World

• Hold The Weddin’!

  

  As Kinky Friedman would say. You’ll have to wait a bit longer to see the progress on the Convair 440. I’ve got something entirely different to show you today. I would like to introduce Ol’ Gutless. Ol’ Gutless is a gate guard for Stein’s Air World in Wet Dog, Alberta. She originally started life as…

  Dick Stein

  October 4, 2018

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Dioramas, Model Airplane, Museums, RCAF Wet Dog, Scale Models, Stein’s Air World

  Bell P-39, gate guard, Hughes Aerial Services, RCAF Wet Dog, Stein’s Air World

• Douglas Dakota – Part One – Ooh, It’s Started…

  

  Okay, okay, I know. It’s just another 1:72 DC-3/C-47/Dakota. But it’s my plane and my workshop and my weblog column so I have a right to be excited. Particularly since I found a bargain. The kit is Italeri and has been out for a while. It sat on the hobby shop shelf next to other Italeri…

  Dick Stein

  August 15, 2018

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Decals, Hobby Shops, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  DAkota, museum example, RCAF, Stein’s Air World

• Bristol/Fairchild Bolingbroke – Part One – Mark Another One Up

  

  I knew this was going to happen, but I didn’t know it was going to be so soon. I am repeating a build. No. I am repeating a build to a certain extent. I am doing what the prototype manufacturers and the air forces did – making the aircraft that developed from an earlier mark. In…

  Dick Stein

  July 30, 2018

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Canadian aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Stein’s Air World, Uncategorized

  Airfix, Bristol/Fairchild, Canada, Stein’s Air World