One for Chuck
Eduard P-51D with Barracuda Studios decals to do my childhood hero's airplane.
There's a WIP thread in the WIP Group. There will be a review at Modeling Madness Thusday, republished here with more photos than there.
iModeler Aviation
Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Banzai!...1/48 Nakajima Ki-84-I Hayate "Frank", Imperial Japanese Army
Also built in 2015.
Hasegawa kit (9364), added brake lines, aerials and landing gear indicators, painted with Gunze and Tamiya acrylics, Tamiya Aluminium for nmf.
The model shows the a/c of Corporal Noboru Naito, 520th Temporary [...]
Revell Airbus A330-302, QANTAS
This is the 1/144 Revel A330 Airbus (LTU Boxing) which I started a couple of years ago, I just managed to finish it up. It was built out of the box with only decals changed. I used Hawkeye Models Australia decals on it to represent VH-QPD [...]
Airfix (Esci) 1/48 “Blå Petter”
Hi everyone!
This is my Airfix 1/48 Saab 37 Viggen, carrying the famous "Blå Petter" scheme!
The A/C's serial number is 37432, being the 132 production JA 37, delivered to F 16 wing in 1990.
This striking scheme was chosen to [...]
1/48 Hispano Ha-1112 Buchon, Ejército del Aire
Built in 2015.
Academy boxing of the Hobbycraft kit, mostly built oob. Replaced the crappy kit canopy with a Hasegawa one, for that some putty and re-scribing was neccessary in the fuselage area behind the canopy.
Used a piece of sponge [...]
Su-35S 'Flanker-E'
Su-35S ‘Flanker-E’ is the latest and very likely last version of the formidable Flanker series. It is not to be confused with the Su-35 of the late ’80s, which was the first to be designated Su-35 (aka Su-27M and T-10M). The first [...]
Airfix 1/48 Tiger Moth
This is my build of the Shuttleworth Tiger Moth from Airfix's 1/48 kit. It's a nice kit and well engineered, there's even an included jig for adapting the tail for the two different versions featured in the kit as one has the anti-spin [...]
1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109F-4 Ejército del Aire
Built in 2015.
Zvezda kit with decals from LF Models, painted with Gunze and Tamiya acrylics, antenna wires with EZ Line.
In 1943 the Spanish Airforce received about a dozen F-4s which were stationed partly in France and Spain. Not much [...]
The Empire of Japan Group meets The Movies Group…
'For Those We Love' and 'The Eternal Zero' are two films that broach the difficult subject of Kamikaze. For David Leigh-Smith’s movies group I chose to build various subjects from these films.
As I moved to a new house this time last [...]
Forgotten War Group Build – Special Hobby 1/48 Fairey Firefly F.R.1, HMS Triumph, 1950
You can see the WIP for this model at the Forgotten War Group Build.
History:
The Fleet Air Arm was the only carrier air arm to carry on with the development and operation of the two-seat carrier fighter past the early 1930s. Both the [...]
