Tag: trainer

• Boeing Kaydet – Part Two – A Hole Lotta Filling Goin’ On

  

  I mentioned the sink holes and ejector post depressions last column. I didn’t realise then how many of them there were going to be. The ones in the tyres were particularly galling. No-one else has this problem. Well, after some Perfect Plastic Putty, neither did I. To their credit, Revell gave me two seats that…

  Dick Stein

  April 5, 2021

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Utility Models

  Boeing, ejector pins, Revell, sinkholes, trainer

• Morane Saulnier MS 230 – Part Three – The Colour Section of Bunnings

  

  I don’t know about you, but I am in an agony every time I go to the colour section of Bunnings – the paint store. The variety of paints and finishes overwhelms me – what I once knew as a cheap tin of paint is now the price of a suit of clothes and the…

  Dick Stein

  March 1, 2021

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, French aircraft, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, research, Scale Models, subassembly

  Colour Schemes, paint, Ruritania, trainer

• Morane Saulnier MS 230 – Part Two – End Of The Evening

  

  I am vastly pleased so far with the Morane Saulnier MS 230 kit. I have a wing, a fuselage, wheels, and an aero engine. The fit of the kit is superb. No open seams and no filler needed. I may run afoul of the struts and wheel braces but I am being soothed by the…

  Dick Stein

  February 28, 2021

  1:72 scale, Civil aircraft, Colour Schemes, Czech models, French aircraft, Model Airplane, research, subassembly, Uncategorized

  monoplane, RRAAF, trainer

• Cessna Crane – Part Three – You May Not Have Noticed

  

  I just thought  – you may not have noticed that the newly-completed RCAF Cessna Crane has been painted yellow. They do that in case you are likely to stumble into it in a darkened hangar… So I follow suit. I make up a mixture of Mr. Color lacquer – one full bottle of No. 109…

  Dick Stein

  February 21, 2021

  1:72 scale, airliner, Canadian aircraft, Civil aircraft, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, RCAF Wet Dog, research, Scale Models

  Cessna, RCAF, trainer, yellow paint

• Cessna Crane – Part Two – It’s Not A Trainer

  

  At least, I don’t think it is. I think it’s a small transport aircraft that can be disguised as a trainer. The Cessna Crane that I speculated about in the first post appears in bright yellow RCAF trainer livery in every historic shot I can find of it. Nowhere so far does it appear in…

  Dick Stein

  February 20, 2021

  1:72 scale, airliner, Canadian aircraft, Civil aircraft, Czech models, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly

  Cessna, trainer, transport

• Cessna UC-78A – Part One – A Cat Becomes A Bird

  

  I’ve written before about the RCAF’s aircraft nomenclature and how it can be alternately logical and puzzling. I’m not sure if this is because it is an armed service or an armed service run by Ottawa… In any case, I leaped upon the KP model of the USAAF Cessna UC-78A Bobcat when it showed on…

  Dick Stein

  February 19, 2021

  1:72 scale, Canadian aircraft, Civil aircraft, Colour Schemes, History, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Cessna, RCAF, trainer

• Beech AT-11 – Part Three – Never Ever

  

  Never ever throw away the extra parts that accumulate as you build your kits. Save them, separate them, and catalogue them if you have time. At least have a good look in the boxes occasionally to remind yourself what you have. Remember modellers have a seventh sense that other people do not have – the…

  Dick Stein

  December 16, 2020

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Colour Schemes, Decals, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Utility Models

  American, bombing, trainer

• Avro Tutor – Part Four – The Yellow Sheep Of The Fold

  

  Well that was an instructive two weeks. I’ve had as much as I can take and the Avro Tutor has had as much construction as it is going to get. Purists will cavil at the lack of rigging but I know my limitations. I will eventually try to rig something but it’ll be a better…

  Dick Stein

  November 16, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Model Airplane, RCAF Wet Dog, Scale Models

  Avro, biplane, Czech kits, trainer

• Mitsubishi Dinah – Part Three – Standing Room Only…

  

  The Mitsubishi Type 100 – the Dinah – was delivered to the Japanese Army Air Force in several versions – bomber, reconnaissance plane, trainer, etc. and there were several configurations of nose and canopy. The thin nose and multi-step greenhouse is characteristic of the training aircraft – probably to allow and instructor to oversee the…

  Dick Stein

  April 27, 2020

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Japanese aircraft, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, research, Scale Models

  Aurora, Mitsubishi, trainer

• Mitsubishi Dinah – Part One – The Japanese Shop

  

  My daughter visited Japan for a two-week holiday last year. Thoroughly loved the place and will go again. On this first visit I primed her to visit a model shop in Akihabara with instructions to bring me back a small 1:72 model kit of something that we don’t get in Australia. Her choice of whatever…

  Dick Stein

  April 25, 2020

  1:72 scale, Collecting, Decals, Japanese aircraft, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models, Secondhand

  Leonardo’s, Mitsubishi, Tokyo, trainer