I started this year with Revell's 1/48 Typhoon finished in the RAF Battle of Britain 75th anniversary display scheme.
I then moved on to two old 1/32 Revell kits that I picked up for £10 each.
The Corsair has very little internal detail [...]
Built in 2017.
Took a bit longer to complete due to several (selfinflicted) problems. Mounted the nozzles inverted but could fix it. Then followed the camoplan in the Caracal instructions but that was wrong and reshaped the camo. When my [...]
As the poet Heinrich Heine put it so associatively and beautifully, "There is magic in every beginning", and this can also be applied to this aircraft in a broad sense. The Sud Aviation Caravelle marks many a beginning for civil [...]
Despite it all it was a productive year although I've neglected sharing here for a while. And I built all things that fly even though I hadn't planned it that way. Here they are:
Dream Model's 1/72 AH-1Z
Hasegawa 1/48 P-40E Aleutian [...]
INTRODUCTION
The P-38 Lightning was originally planned to be a high altitude twin engined bomber interceptor. It was designed by Clarence Kelly Johnson's team with its now famous and unique twin boom configuration around the [...]
Finished 15 this year - pleased with that.
Happy Holidays,
Richard
All my models: (link)
Buzzer beater for 2020 - finished on New Years Eve.
Great kit (Revell 051322) with very nice details out of the box. I added Shapeways figures.
Album: (link)
All my models: (link)
Photo Editing:
Adobe Lightroom
Helicon Focus (focus [...]
First is Tamiya's "Betty", the last for the year, completed (as if ever a model is really done) on 12/30. 🙂 The rest of the models all posted here before. Hope no one minds my throwing in a couple of woodworking projects. [...]
Full writeups of these will come in due time. Why do I have a feeling I'm going to have the same amount of free time in 2021?
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2020 was an odd one for me. After 33 years, my airline job succumbed to the virus and I decided to retire rather than wait it out or take a furlough / layoff and risk losing my benefits. I second guessed that decision for quite a while, [...]