For those of you who aren’t already acquainted with this early 30’s Italian flying barrel of an experiment, here is the Stipa-Caproni for your reading and visual aero-tainment:
Disclaimer: The above color photo of a Stipa-Caproni is [...]
Yet another early Spitfire.
This is 1/32 Hasegawa Spitfire Mk.IIa with the markings of “P7531 LZ-I” from 421 Flight in Nov 1940.
Modifications are:
Yahu instrument panel
Eduard seat belts
Barracudacast seat
Barracudacast cockpit [...]
I decided to have a change of pace just lately. This is the Mini-art Dutch house.
I've always been a great fan of some of the "Cold War gone hot" books such as Gen. "Shan" Hacketts "Third World War" and [...]
I'm not an armour builder and it's been over 40yrs since I built any armour, but I thought that I would give this kit a go as a deviation from aircraft.
IDF Tiran 5 in the earlier Sinai grey scheme circa 1980's.
This is my Otaki 1/48 P-47D Thunderbolt that I built in 1986. This is a bit of a kit bash using Monogram's P-47D cowling and engine and Hawk's P-47D Curtiss Electric Propeller. Some details were added into the cockpit area, fuel pressure [...]
A few years back I took catalog of my model collection. I had a lot of models. This did not surprise me. I did a rough estimation of how long it takes me to finish one model, and multiplied by how many non-completed models (started and [...]
Airfix 1/72 B-26B Marauder.
I made this kit last year for a FB group build, the theme was "Airfix B-26." Mostly made out of the box build except for the following: added some extra details in the cockpit and bombardier area and [...]
1/72 Hasegawa with Italeri VS, built 2009 to 2010, finished in C212 and Humbrol enamels with Future over Italeri decals, flown by Capt Mike "Mo" Beale / solo.
P-47D Razorback. “Kansas Tornado” 510fs 405FG Europe.
Pilot: Howard Curran Served in Europe and Korea. Debate exists regarding ace status.
Kit: Trumpeter. Generally a good kit except for the Hamilton Standard prop- [...]
This video shows a few ways that I use dental rubber dam material as a paint mask for scale models.