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Live on the south coast of Western Australia. Did a fair bit of modelling as a kid (early nineties) but rarely put decals on or even painted the kits. Like many here, got back into the hobby just a few years ago.
Working my way through every significant single-engined fighter of WWII in 1/72 scale.

1/72 Yakovlev Yak-3 Revell

This is a 1/72 scale Yakovlev Yak-3 by Revell in the colours of a machine from 18. GIAP, East Prussia, 1945. This was a pretty straight-forward build OOB. Everything fit together pretty nicely. I was well impressed with the full colour, [...]

1/72 Messerschmitt Bf 109E-4

Picked this up at the local toyshop. One half of the Airfix Dogfight Doubles (the other being the Spitfire Mk I that I am currently working on). Pretty fun kit. Only a couple of small crises during the build - temporarily lost a tail-plane [...]