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Modelling from Costa Rica but born and raised in Mexico.

Tamiya 1/48 A-1J Skyraider.

Camo colors from Model Master and Testors enamels, Black underside coat with Tamiya acrylics. Cockpit, propeller and decals from Meteor Productions and Cutting Edge (OOP). Big rocket pods and submunition dispensers from Eduard, Small [...]

Sword 1/72 F3D2 Skyknight, encore.

Why to build only one when you can build two at the same time? Same kit, same details and improvements than on the previous one but this time I used the kit decals, except the yellow strake on the nose that I preferred to paint it to keep [...]

Sword 1/72 F3D2 Skyknight

VMF(N)-513, late Nov 52. #23 was the first Whale to achieve a kill during the type deployment on the Korean War early that month and a second kill on Jan 53, I decided to show it during the period in between those events when the squadron [...]

Eduard Bf109 E-7 Trop.

Hello again. Before you my last project. I used the photoetched frets and the decals from the Profipack edition of the kit, changed the weapon cannons for the metal ones from Master and the Gunsight for a resin piece form Quickboost. I had [...]

Revell of Germany 1/144 Landing Ship Medium

Last year and a half I devoted it to 1/144 scale, this is the last model of that effort, I improved many details with plastic sheets, strips and rods, copper wire, brass rod and tubes, piano wire, thin aluminum paper and replaced the [...]

Special Hobby 1/48 AJS-37 Viggen

This was a long project, it began on March 2020 and finished on May 2021, I have always liked the Viggen with its splinter camouflage, therefore I wanted to do this one with all possible improvements. All of the surface received lines of [...]

Airfix 1/72 Phantom FG1.

RAF 111st. Squadron around 1986. To finish my triple Phantom project I ended the series with the latest Airfix tool, but for this one I elected to have the cockpit closed, even though I used PE details for it and resin seats (I know they [...]

Hasegawa 1/72 F-4B Phantom II

VF-84 Jolly Rogers during their 1965 VN tour. Backdated to an early bird, no ECM antennas and un-slotted stabilators. Several details from scratch but I also used photoetched sets, resin weapons, TERs, wheels, afterburner cans, ejection [...]

Hasegawa 1/72 F-4S Phantom II

First of this project. It began in February, this one was finished this past weekend. I´m depicting a training load while land based. Resin accesories: bombs, AIM-9L, MERs, wheels, jet exhausts, wheels, seats and mirrors. Photoetched [...]

Sweet 1/144 A6M2b X7 plus Flight Deck Section

My last project, painted Hinomaru insignias and colored belts/stripes, pitot tubes added with hipodermic needles and wire. Little nice kits but it took me longer than expected to finish these up, too many things to mask, Deck section has 5 [...]