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Hasegawa J2M Raiden 雷電 Lightning Bolt “Jack”

This is Hasegawa’s classic Raiden kit from 1977. It is a good kit for its time, but suffers from basic cockpit detail and shallow wheelwells. I replaced both on my build and plunge-molded the sliding portion of the canopy. There is [...]

Things I hate about modelling

Decals-especially stencils. Long black walk/don't walk lines which break into a million pieces. Roundels which fall apart if you look at them funny. The floor where I spend 1/3 of my precious hobby time crawling about cursing because [...]

1/48 Kittyhawk Sepecat Jaguar Gr.1

This is 1/48 Kittyhawk Sepecat Jaguar GR.1 with the markings of XX743 Coltishall 1975. This is built OOB except for Master pitot tube. I have used Gunze Sangyo acrylics . Decals are from Kits World #48052 Happy modelling

Hobbycraft 1/72 CF-100 (Hypothetical)

This kit called to me from its shelf in the garage, and I wanted to build something different. I sometimes build a kit in a paint scheme that never actually existed, and this is what happened here. To make it more plausible in my mind, I [...]

WWII Navy flight trainers

I'm nearing the end of my Navy dive bomber collecting spree, having just received a Vac Wings BT-1 in the mail, so I turned my attention to Navy trainers for a bit before starting that project. I was pleased to find the following kits [...]

P 47 D-20 RAZORBACK 1/48

Reproduction of the p 47 D Razorback of major Herschel " Herky " Green,commander of the 317th ..325° FG . Known ad the clan checkertail for the striking a yellow and black chess of the helm of his P 47s. Herky had become ace in [...]

Long range Kamikaze

Story is that near the end of war Japanese joined planes damaged in ground attacks and put simple bomb on nose, JATO rockets for take off and worn out engine for longer range. The base is laminate flooring, wall is styrodur, grass is [...]

Zvezda 1/72 La-5fn

My April no-frills build. This one took more than a month as it turned out to be a putty monster. The wing root areas took several applications of putty and sanding to get them to look good. Fortunately, the wings didn’t have a lot of [...]

Review: 1/700 scale Dragon USS Bon Homme Richard CV-31 "Korean War" - Review

Greetings all, This is another unboxing review which is a quite unique subject a Korean War era aircraft carrier. Dragon models to date is the only manufacturer so far to release few Korean War era carriers which is ideal for collectors [...]

1/32 Scale Italeri F-104 ASA-M Italian Air Force with real aluminum skin

Hi friends, here is the completed F-104 ASA with real aluminum skin. I am so glad to be done with F-104s for awhile! This kit is my second 1/32 Italeri Starfighter and they are a good kit, but I added a lot of scratchbuilt details, [...]