I was looking for something I could build in parallel with the 1/28 Revell Triplane I was working on, and this model popped up on sale at one of the online hobby stores. Even though I prefer models in a larger scale, this one looked so [...]
I have a list of Mustangs I want on the shelf and at the top is Preddy's Cripes. @lgardner wrote a great story about Cripes for his beautiful 1/32 build. This lead me down another rabbit hole regarding the history of 44-13321. As Louis [...]
The last of the night fighter breed with a FuG 240 Berlin N-1a radar. The first appearance of the radar dish in the Luftwaffe instead of the cumbersome antennae arrays.
Hello all and welcome to my latest build. The Tamiya F35A Lightning II, dressed up in RAAF No. 3 Squadron colours. The version depicted in this kit is serial number A35-009, flown by Wing Commander Darren "Clarey" Clare, who was [...]
Matchbox 1/72 Northrop F-5A PK-12 was first released in 1972. A simple and sharp looking kit that took the modeling world by storm, well for someone who was 13 years old back then. But to be honest, a lot of my paper route adult customers [...]
Latest completion is the Tamiya 1/48 Dewoitine D.520. This was one of Tamiya’s two-sprue wonders from the 90’s, and it still holds up today as a nice kit.
I added considerable scratchbuilt details to the cockpit sidewalls, and made [...]
I really swithered about sticking this up as I think it's far from my best work.
It took four repaints to get it to this stage and it shows in the loss of surface detail.
Towards the end this was an effort in perseverance and sheer [...]
"Shangri La", the iconic P-51B piloted by Capt. D. Gentile, 336th FS, 4th FG with the early white spinner. And how disappointing was the end of this aircraft...