Tag: Vultee

• Vultee Vanguard – Part Five – Hint of Wings To Come.

  

  Look closely at some lines on this Vultee fighter and mentally add a bent wing and bigger engine. Yep. It would have been interesting to see what might have been if the later Corsair was available for China in the early 40’s. lad-based aviation would have been less critical in landing than naval service and…

  Dick Stein

  May 3, 2023

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Chinese aircraft, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  China, fighter design, Vultee

• Vultee Vanguard – Part One – Stash Sale Star

  

  The acquisition of a Vultee Vanguard was one of those serendipitous moments – a stash was being thinned, the sales day was ending, the owner was marking things down, and I had $ 15 left. Now the painful part – the decision whether to assign this one to the USAAF, the RCAF, or the Nationalist…

  Dick Stein

  April 30, 2023

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Czech models, frugality, Model Airplane, Modelling exhibitions, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models

  model exhibition, stash sale, Vultee

• Vultee Vengeance – Part Five – We’ll All Pull Together

  

  Our winches between our knees. As they say in the recruiting posters ” It’s Men’s Life In The Target Tug Crews “. It sure is. Of course the men are nervous gibbering wrecks who shy away from sudden movement and loud noises, but that’s beside the point. Someone has to tow canvas cones behind an…

  Dick Stein

  October 12, 2018

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  lacquer paint, target tug, Vultee

• Vultee Vegeance – Part Four – Lacquer

  

  Now before you start writing in to the editor to complain about the appearance of the heading image, let me remind you that I am the editor. And there is nothing wrong with the image – it is a plain and simple Vultee in conservative colours. It’s your eyes that are wrong… The new target…

  Dick Stein

  October 11, 2018

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, American aircraft, Australian aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  colour, lacquer paint, target tug, Vultee

• Vultee Vengeance – Part Three – How Green Was My Vultee

  

  If the fumes from the paint don’t kill me, the bad puns will. Probably through the agency of enraged listeners seeking me out to stop them. Actually, I am very proud of this one, as it involves real thinking and research. As I am building a Vultee Vengeance in RAF or RAAF service ( not…

  Dick Stein

  October 10, 2018

  1:72 scale, Acrylic, Australian aircraft, British aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Modelling materials, Painting, research, Scale Models

  cockpit, lacquer paint, Mr. Color, RAAF, Vultee, zinc chromate

• Vultee Vengeance – Part Two – The Assembly Line

  

  I am never loathe to accept advice from people who really know how to do something well. Not so sanguine about being told off by those who have never done something themselves, but I’ve learned to put up a poker face and not react. Eventually they go away and I can get on with it.…

  Dick Stein

  October 8, 2018

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Czech models, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  horizontal stab iliser, measuring, Vultee

• Vultee Vengeance – Part One – The Show Special

  

  When I went to this year’s WASMEX plastic model show I promised myself that I would only get one thing. Of course, I was a liar and a fraud; I purchased three things. The last of which came off the stash today and out in front of the camera – the Special Hobby 1:72 Vultee Vengeance.…

  Dick Stein

  October 8, 2018

  1:72 scale, Australian aircraft, Box Art, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Decals, Model Airplane, Painting

  RAAF, resin parts, target tug, vac-form parts, Vultee