Tag: Zvezda

• Petlyakov Pe-2 – Part One – Father’s Day Last Year

  

  Make no mistake about it. When a gift-giving date approaches I do not hesitate to go down to the hobby shop and either reserve a kit or buy one outright. Then the gift-givers can go and pay for it or refund me. Charity begins at home and I know where I live. The Pe-2 is a Mister…

  Dick Stein

  June 2, 2021

  1:72 scale, Hobby Shops, Miniature Philosophy, Model Airplane, Polish models, Russian models, Scale Models, Soviet aircraft, Uncategorized

  Mister Craft, Polish model, Zvezda

• Summer And Winter

  

  An opportunity has arisen to make a summer/winter layout – a diorama of a little Soviet airfield in both seasons. It’s to be spread over two bases and is coming together rather nicely. The bases are identical, but the portions of the field featured are different – and in both cases they are general enough…

  Dick Stein

  May 31, 2021

  1:72 scale, Figure modelling, Military models, Modelling Supplies, Russian models, Uszhitmi Aerodrome

  figures, Uszhitmi Aerodrome, Zvezda

• Ilyushin 4 – Part Three – I Give In To Zvezda

  

  I have written before about my technique of painting the canopies of my aircraft – how I use a bow pen to add the framework at the end of the build. It is closer to my past experiences and very effective in most cases. But looking at the glass nose of the Ilyushin I knew…

  Dick Stein

  March 31, 2021

  1:72 scale, Masking, Model Airplane, Russian models, Soviet aircraft, Workshop

  Ilyushin, masking windows, Zvezda

• Ilyushin 4 – Part One – Bob’s Your Uncle

  

  My brother-in-law, actually. We have Christmas lunch at his house most years. Not a prolific model builder, but he has completed some from-the-plan models of ships and boats. He’s more of a full-size builder of houses and cars. But back to the Bob. This model of the Ilyushin 4 was part of the Father’s Day…

  Dick Stein

  March 29, 2021

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

  Ilyushin, Mister Craft, value for money, Zvezda

• MiG 15 – Part Eight – Is Ready For Uszhitmi Air Show

  

  The Uszhitmi Air Show has always been the premier display of Soviet – and laterally Russian – air power since the early 20’s. Starting as it did with flying tractors and merry peasant dances on the tarmac between crashes, it progressed to formation passes made the giant creations of the 30’s that were ever larger…

  Dick Stein

  June 13, 2019

  1:72 scale, Colour Schemes, Decals, Model Airplane, Russian models, Soviet aircraft, Stein’s Air World, Uncategorized

  MiG 15, Stein’s Air World, Uszhitmi, Zvezda

• Lavotchkin 5-FN – Part One – First Russian

  

  I was idling though a hobby shop that has few aircraft – they specialise in figures and games – when I remembered that they sometimes have cheap airplane kits. I think they are stocked as a sop to the shoppers rather than a serious attempt to earn money…but I am prepared to be condescended to…

  Dick Stein

  December 28, 2018

  1:72 scale, Box Art, Colour Schemes, Model Airplane, Scale Models, Soviet aircraft

  Lavotchkin, Russian, Soviet, Zvezda