Tag: workshop jig

• 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

• North American Mitchell – Part Two – Sparring For My Attention

  

  The Airfix company are pursuing a theme with their latest moulds of multi-engine aircraft. They are giving us far more detail than ever before and the walls of the fuselages and the wings are becoming thinner. When we see the edge of a window or an opening it is far more in-scale than the old…

  Dick Stein

  October 9, 2019

  1:72 scale, American aircraft, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Scale Models, subassembly, Uncategorized, Workshop

  Mitchell bomber, wing spars, workshop jig