Tag: Tupolev bomber

• Tupolev SB2 – Part Four – ” Red Is The Colour…”

  

  ” Of my true love’s national aircraft recognition insignia in the morning, as I rise…” This was an aviation folk song that Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie tried to promote in the 1930’s but it never really got off the ground, despite a headwind. Even when they offered to strike every Friday and bus in…

  Dick Stein

  February 15, 2020

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Decals, Model Airplane, Painting, Russian models, Scale Models, Soviet aircraft, Uncategorized

  insignia, Spanish plane, Tupolev bomber

• Tupolev SB2 – Part Three – The Gallows…

  

  I never realised how much my painting stand looked like a gallows tree until I hung the Tupolev SB2 on it for undercoating and colour coats. Didn’t mean to be quite so morbid… But the fact that the SB2 was suspended there and took its paint so well pointed out the basic utility of the…

  Dick Stein

  February 14, 2020

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Painting, Russian models, Soviet aircraft, Tools, Workshop

  gallows, Painting, Tupolev bomber, workshop jig