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1/48 Bristol Blenheim If.

by John Healy on March 1, 2021 · in Aviation · 27 ≡

This is the outstanding recent Airfix kit. It’s highly detailed, well engineered, and is a pleasure to build. I started this one late last year and it assembled very quickly with no problems. The only thing I added was a set of Eduard [...]

Updating the old Monogram B-58 (1:48): part 2. engine intakes in 3D

by Gábor Szabó on February 28, 2021 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

Just a short note for today - I finally finished the B-58 intakes, the printed parts are cleaned,primed, sanded adjusted and I sent back them to SBS Model for the first experimental moldings. I made a handmade replacement intakes set some [...]

Sweet 1/144 Type 96 Carrier Fighter (A5M4)

by James Kelley on February 28, 2021 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

I started this project yesterday, and finished it up this afternoon. As with all of Sweets' kits, I loved it. A relaxing (mostly), easy build and 4 really cool livery. The model was airbrushed with Alclad II White Aluminum, and [...]

Classic Airframes Curtiss SBC-4 Helldiver, Samoa, 1942

by Spiros Pendedekas on February 28, 2021 · in Aviation · 42 ≡

Hi everyone! This is my Classic Airframes 1/48 Curtiss SBC-4 Helldiver, VMO-151, as it stood in Samoa island, 1942. The Curtiss SBC Helldiver was a two-seat scout bomber and dive bomber built by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation. It was [...]

TF-51 Mustangs in 1/72

by Jim Harley on February 28, 2021 · in Aviation · 13 ≡

Going small 🙂 This is the first time I've built a 1/72nd scale fighter(s). Tiny! The Little Witch was converted from the Tamiya kit, and Miss Velma is the AIrfix kit. I love them both, they both build up in to fine models. The AIrfix [...]

Every landing is a crash landing! Airspeed Horsa Mk.I, Operation Tonga, 6. June 1944

by Roland Sachsenhofer on February 28, 2021 · in Aviation · 14 ≡

Although the Airspeed Horsa is a well-known aircraft and can also claim to be one of the icons of the Allied landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944, I did not realise until this project what a gripping story(s) and most remarkable technology [...]

Night Haunter…1/48 Boulton Paul Defiant Mk.I, RAF

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on February 28, 2021 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

Built in 2015. Initially my dad wanted to build a Defiant Mk.II nightfighter with the Classic Airframes kit with the fancy red codes but he didn´t get along with the itsy bitsy tiny PE parts for the antennas, so he decided to build a Mk.I [...]

Carrier Force Three

by Brian Hathaway on February 27, 2021 · in Ships · 5 ≡

Recently completed carrier force. Being a Naval Veteran I'm partial to, yeah you guessed it, naval ships. Pictured here are the following. The U.S.S. Nimitz CVN-68 in its 2005 appearance, the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71 in its 2006 [...]

Revell 1/48 Bristol Beaufighter TF.X

by Matt Buxton on February 27, 2021 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

For Revell there's a fair amount of detail here but the fit is a bit iffy to say the least. I saw on here that somebody else had had issues with the fit of the engines and main undercarriage. They were not wrong. Still, with a bit of [...]

1:24 scratch built South African Air Force Dassault Mirage F1 AZ No 217 – Part 1

by Adrian Starling on February 27, 2021 · in Aviation · 24 ≡

This build was started 3 years ago as an experiment for me as I had built a number of civil aircraft in 1:24 scale and decided the time had come to stretch my scratch building knowledge by building a military fighter and what a journey it [...]