Tag: Wellington bomber

• RAF Wellington – Part Five – Desert Heavy

  

  Well, not that heavy – remember that this bomber is twin engined to a pre-war design. But the theatre at the time saw few combat aircraft much bigger. The Vickers Wellington Ic is decked in a Western Desert night scheme drawn directly from the instruction call-out. The odd wavy top edge to the coal-black under-colour…

  Dick Stein

  June 19, 2023

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Decals, Model Airplane, Painting

  colour call-outs, Decals, RAF, Wellington bomber

• RAF Wellington – Part Four – ” I Think You’ll Find…”

  

  Rack off, anorak. I found the colour call-out sheet with this MPM model very pleasing and I am going to follow their instructions. I also found a number of images on Google that told me about details of the real thing. They are not in colour, but the tones of the photos are accurate. The…

  Dick Stein

  June 19, 2023

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Instructions, Lacquer, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models

  anoraks, paints, Wellington bomber, Western Desert

• RAF Wellington – Part Three – Bow Pen For The Win

  

  If you do not have one, get one. Get two. Get several. You can never have enough bow pens. I have three – one from a drafting set my Grandfather used – one from a set my Father used, and one from a cheap eBay buy. The first two are best, the last adequate. Whenever…

  Dick Stein

  June 18, 2023

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, subassembly, Tools

  bow pen, paint, Wellington bomber

• RAF Wellington – Part Two – The Inside Job

  

  I am starting to model in four dimensions. Outside for length, width, and height. Inside for detail. Of course the general viewers will never know what’s inside, but I will. I will treasure the vision of a jewelled interior telling intriguing stories. And I will have beaten the old Airfix/Revell/Aurora monster of the hollow fuselage.…

  Dick Stein

  June 17, 2023

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, design, display, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized

  interiors, MPM, Wellington bomber

• Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part Six – Don’t Touch Me…

  

  I’m clean. And socially isolated. And I want to remain this way for at least five minutes… There probably never was a clean Coastal Command Wellington. Or Liberator, Sunderland, Digby, Whitley, or Hudson…or anything else that started life as white on the underside. Think about it. Underneath is where things run to when they leak,…

  Dick Stein

  April 1, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, camouflage, Czech models, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, Uncategorized

  campuflage, Coastal Command, Wellington bomber

• Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part Five – A Whiter Shade Of Pale

  

  A confession – I was courting when ” A Whiter Shade Of Pale ” was new on the charts and I tried to be cool by dancing to it. It goes on longer than a Methodist sermon but without the jazzy language or uptempo beat… I hated it then and I hate it now. The…

  Dick Stein

  March 31, 2020

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

  Mr. Color, rattle can, Wellington bomber

• 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

• Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part Three – Lemme Up Youse Mugs!

  

  I’ll murdalize ya! Just lemme up! The building table was well in use in our heading shot as I sought to get the tailplanes level and even on the Wellington Mk 1C. The fuselage had been cemented with Humbrol Poly tube cement due to an article I found featuring a build of this same plane.…

  Dick Stein

  March 29, 2020

  1:72 scale, adhesives, British aircraft, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Painting, Scale Models, subassembly, Workshop

  Mr. Base White, tube cement, Wellington bomber

• Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part Two – More Poles

  

  Our heading image is very close to the version of the Wellington Mk 1C that I am building, though in the case of this plane it has the later grey and grey/green upper works rather than the green/brown. But it provides painting hints that Italeri have left out of their instructions, so I am grateful.…

  Dick Stein

  March 28, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, Czech models, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Workshop

  engines, moulding, turrets, Wellington bomber

• Vickers Wellington Mk 1C – Part One – Sold Down The Aisle

  

  If ever there was an example of successful box art it must surely be this Italeri 1:72 Vickers Wellington Mk IC – successful for me and for the hobby shop. The end flap illustration caught my eye in Hearn’s Hobbies in Melbourne and I was sold as soon as I slid the box down off…

  Dick Stein

  March 27, 2020

  1:72 scale, British aircraft, camouflage, Colour Schemes, Czech models, Model Airplane, Modelling Supplies, Scale Models

  Coastal Command, Polish Sqn, Wellington bomber