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Pilot and aviation obsessive. Have loved model making all my life, and delighted to have found this site with so many like minded and talented folks showing off their builds!

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North Vietnamese Mig-21PF in 1/48 Scale from Eduard kit

This is from a little while back - was my first attempt at Natural Metal Finish work with Alclads... It's Eduard's Profipack series 1/48 scale Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-21PF in North Vietnamese Air Force markings. Used Alclad Airframe [...]

Big Beautiful Doll – P-51D Mustang in 1/48

This is a build of Col John Landers' famous 'Big Beautful Doll' with a bit of a twist - at the end of World War 2 he became commander of the 361st Fighter Group which had yellow noses and medium blue trim instead of the 78th Fighter [...]

Mitsubishi F-2AJapan's take on the F-16

Hi all! This is one I did a little while back - the Japanese Air Self Defense Forces (JASDF) Mitsubishi F-2A from Hasegawa. It's a very nice kit and much like Israeli F-15s and F-16s offers a nice colourful alternative to USAF ghost grey [...]

Hans Jochaim Marseille’s Messerschmitt Bf 109F-4 in 1/48

Messerschmitt Bf 109F-4 'Yellow 14' as flown by top scoring Luftwaffe ace Hans Jochaim Marseille in the Western Desert in 1941, who would go on to achieve 158 kills including a still unequalled 16 in a single day (all confirmed in allied [...]

D-Day Spifire Mk.IXc (Late Version) in 1/48 by Eduard

Because who doesn't love a Spitfire? As always, a really lovely kit from Eduard's ProfiPack 1/48 scale warbird series. I figured it had been too long since I made a good old Spitfire and had never done one with invasion stripes so chose [...]

Big 1/48 Israeli F-15i from GWH kit

Hi all, This one was my first try at an F-15 and my first GWH kit - I can heartily recommend both 🙂 The kit comes with a LOT of plastic and is quite intimidating but the fit is fantastic and I personally love the eyecatching Israeli [...]

1/48 Focke Wulf 190D ‘Long Nosed Dora’ from Eduard kit

Hi all, Wanted to share this colourful late war Fw190D that I built over last weekend - have always liked the look of the long nosed 190s and pleased with the way this turned out. Picture 4 shows it alongside my other end of WW2 in Europe [...]