RAF DH.82 Tiger Moth, Airfix 1/48
This is my first post for an airplane. I truly love this tiny biplane for flight practice. Although my experience in aircraft modelling is very limited, this Airfix kit does not have any serious problem to assemble including rigging. As a small knack, I used Tamiya's hand rail etching for 1/350 ships as the anchor points for rigging and found it worked so well to improve the efficiency of rigging work. Because the paint scheme I chose is the one much later than WWII (in 2018!), please understand the scenes with crew and dog are just fictitious.
Great looking Tiger Moth, Naoki, the models and the photographs are both terrific. Good idea using the railings.
Fantastic model, amazing, realistic finish.
I like your presentation also.
Best regards, Djordje
A super build of the lovely little Moth Naoki 👍
Gorgeous work, Naoki!
For your first airplane post, that is some excellent modeling, Naoki! Thanks for sharing, always appreciate hearing other modeler's techniques.
Beautiful job! That's a really nice Tiger Moth. It's definitely up to the standards you've shown in your amazing ship builds. Hopefully we'll see more of both subjects in the new year.
Beautiful build - looks fantastic!
Great build, nice job on the rigging.
A lovely build of this Tiger Moth. @yamanaka
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Very nice modeling Naoki, good work on the rigging.
Thank you all for the heart-warming comments! Lately I am moving to airplanes, because ship models are getting too tough on my eye sight...
This is interesting (I'm currently building the Airfix 1/72 version). What a great build and very nice finish.
Fantastic job, Naoki!
That's a wonderful model, Naoki @yamanaka! 👏 Just beautiful work all around; could you possible show a "close up" view of the handrail etching used for the rigging mounts? That sounds like a great idea and looks good on the model, too. 👍
Thank you for your comments! I just change some photo to show the handrail etching. Maybe I have confused by saying a handrail etching. Tamiya's hand rail etching is not usual one. It would be easier to understand if you see the following site. (Sorry I could not find an English site) I just cut them into small parts and used them as heaton( <- is it a right word for this?)
https://www.tamiya.com/japan/products/12642/index.html