Tag: Trumpeter

• Convair F-106 – A NORAD Quickie

  

  I have taken to an amusing game when I photograph dancers at their concerts or for portraits – when they ask me the cost of the finished files or videos I tell them about my model airplane hobby. I ask them to pay their bill by purchasing a 1:72 scale model airplane kit that I…

  Dick Stein

  August 29, 2022

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Chinese models, Hobby Shops, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models

  belly dancers, Convair, kit lottery, NORAD, Trumpeter

• Ess Bend Engineering – Part Three – Boxing Clever

  

  I used to wonder at some of the kits I saw in the hobby shop – kits that seemed to be of such mundane subjects that I didn’t think anyone would ever be interested. Wrong. Wrong on many levels. I got the first indication of this when I saw the late, great, John Evans building…

  Dick Stein

  June 27, 2022

  1:35 scale, Chinese models, Miniature Philosophy, Model building club, Scale Model Buildings, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  civil model, Trumpeter, Workshop

• Ess Bend Engineering – Part Two – Now You Sea One

  

  And I wish you could sea two. The Trumpeter kit for a 40′ sea container is a beauty – and as it came under the wing of an EOFY sale by Hobbytech, I seized upon it gleefully. I would have been even more delighted if it had been a pair of 20′ containers as these…

  Dick Stein

  June 27, 2022

  1:35 scale, Chinese models, Decals, design, Dioramas, Hobby Shops, Military models, Miniature photography, Modelling materials, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  Ess Bend Engineering, sea container, Tabletop Photography, Trumpeter