Italeri model kits
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Italeri Bugatti Type 35B 1/12 Scale
I built this kit last year, you can see the WIP in the automotive group under the title “ripped silk”, which is how the exhaust is supposed to sound. My wife wasn’t too keen on letting me trying to reproduce this. The Type 35B was [...]
A Trio of Lockheed Hudsons in 1/72 Scale
This project represents something I have never done before: building more than one kit at the same time. I tend to be a linear builder. I build one kit at a time, and when it is done I clean up the workbench and start the next one. I have [...]
2023 Builds
It's been awhile since I've posted anything but I thought I'd share this years builds:
1/72 Hasegawa F-16D Have Glass 148th FW Minnesota ANG
1/72 Hasegawa F-15EX Eglin AFB
1/72 Hobbyboss TA-7C
1/48 Tamiya F-16 ADF (the Block 30 kit with a [...]
Republic F 84F Thunderstreak, 5-653 Getti Tonanti, 5 Aerobrigata, Rimini, Italy 1959.
1/72 PJ productions, resin kit, Italeri kit decals with Sky 72-009 roundels, built 03-2020 to 12-2022, I added 4g of lead above the nose wheel well, a 1/32" brass wire wing spar, replaced the jet pipe with alloy tube, mistakenly [...]
DAK Panzerjager I
Italeri Panzerjager I. Built stock with extra stowage from the spares box and the Panzer Art resin sand bag / track front armor. Building the Italeri kit really makes me appreciate Tamiya.
F-16A MLU RNLAF 322nd Squadron "Polly Grey" 60th anniversary 2003
With the 50th anniversary of the F-16 today, I repost the F-16 I finished recently as part of the GB initiated by Erik Gjørup @airbum.
It’s a rendition of the F-16A MLU with registration J-063 from RNLAF 322nd Squadron based at [...]
Junkers Ju-87 R-2 "Sturzkampfflugzeug"
My very first Stuka: an R-2 from 3rd Staffel, 1st Gruppe, Sturzkampfgeschwader 1, as it may have appeared in April-May 1940, based in France. Pretty much Italeri out of the box, with a few Eduard embellishments in the cockpit. I spent far [...]
Mustang I, 1/72 Italeri, RCAF 414 Squadron, F/O Hollis Hills
Hollis Hills was an American flying with the Royal Canadian Air Force, and this aircraft, with Hollis at the stick, was the first Mustang to score a victory, over an FW-190, above the beaches of the disastrous Dieppe raid, a dark day for [...]
Bell 206B-1 Kiowa, N17-006 896, 723 Sqn RAN, HMAS Albatross, Nowra NSW 1988 - 2000.
1/72 Italeri, started early 2013, finished 2022, featured in the helicopter GB, more pic's, details there, one of 56 in ADF service, delivered 1971, transferred to RAN 1988, returned to Army 2000, sold 2017.
