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B-24 D 1/72 Academy "The Squaw", Operation Tidal Wave.
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This is my second attempt at the B-24 Liberator model from the Academy brand and I must say that it was one of the most pleasant builds I have had recently. Thanks to the experience from the previous construction, I was already [...]
Sopwith Pup 1/72
The model is built from two sets. Revell - Sopwith Triplane and wings from Sopwith Strutter - TOKO.
Fujimi 1/72 A-6A Intruder
One of my earliest builds once back into the hobby (decades ago) was a Revell Intruder. I still have it, but will toss it now that I've built a real kit! The Fujimi kit has ducting to the blades all the way through front and rear (though [...]
1/72 Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero Type 21
I've always wanted to build a set of 1941-42 IJN carrier airplanes, and picked up a complete set of Hasegawa kits last summer. This is the first to make it to the workbench, a A6M2b that appears to be a 1993 issue. It is finished as Lt. [...]
Lockheed AP-3C(EW) Orion, 10 Squadron RAAF
I completed this one some months ago, it is the Hasegawa P-3C kit converted to an RAAF ISR/EW aircraft.
The base kit was updated with a Hamilton Hobbies EW conversion set as well as additional scratch building of fittings and antennas not [...]
Lockheed LC-130F Hercules
This is the 1/72 Italeri C-130 kit (Testors boxing) built as an LC-130F of the United States Navy.
It represents LC-130F 148321 of VXE-6 which crashed in 1971 at an ice runway 860 miles (1,380 km) from McMurdo Station as a result of two [...]
Lockheed HC-130N Hercules
This is the original tooling of the Airfix C-130 kit. I have built it as a USAF HC-130N CSAR aircraft or as the USAF puts it "the only dedicated fixed-wing Personnel Recovery platform in the Air Force inventory".
To build the [...]
Me 262A - 1960 and 2017 Airfix 1/72 kits
I recently finished a double-build - two 1/72 Me 262A German jet fighters. The reason for the double-build was that I had two kits - a 1960 Airfix kit which I sat on for so long they came out with a much-improved version in 2017, which I [...]
A model that I originally didn't want to build at all – but which was (and still is!) a lot of fun: Zlin 137 Agro
The path to building this model of the Zlin 137 Agro is so entertainingly winding and full of twists and turns that I would like to start this report with a description of it. Sometimes the journey changes the perspective in such a way [...]
