Tag: Tamiya paint

• Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part Four – Mr Ghost

  

  Are we ever ready for the undercoat in our lives? Probably not…but when we make model kits there comes a time when we are definitely going to have to reach for the spray. I say that as an airbrush user, but I think the rattle can people are in much the same boat. I have…

  Dick Stein

  March 30, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Mr. Color, primer, Tamiya paint, Wellington bomber

• Lockheed Lodestar – Part Four – The Grey Ghost

  

  Limited as I am to only a half-dozen photos of the actual plane I’m modelling – CF-TDI – I am having to squeeze the last drops of information from each image. The heading one is the chief image I use, as it was evidently taken with Kodachrome in the late 40’s or early 50’s and…

  Dick Stein

  January 20, 2019

  1:72 scale, airliner, Canadian aircraft, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  company colours, Lockheed Lodestar, Tamiya paint

• De Havilland Mosquito Mk II – Part Two – The Peek Into The Box

  

  I must confess to a slightly pusillanimous nature when it comes to buying model airplane kits sight-unseen. I was bit by a Revell Tradewind kit as a child and the scar still throbs in wet weather. I prefer to look carefully at what I’ve got before I spend my money. Nevertheless I do read reviews…

  Dick Stein

  September 13, 2018

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, British aircraft, Decals, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  De Havilland Mosquito, Tamiya kit, Tamiya paint