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1/48th Scale Aircraft model builder with a focus on WWII to (almost) present military aviation.
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This AH-1F/S Cobra a simple build, perhaps a bit too simple as the engine is only two parts split down the middle which makes clean up a bit challenging. As with the vintage Monogram kits raised panel lines are present and accounted for [...]
This build is an homage to SAR crews everywhere past, present and future. In this case RCAF 14 Wing Greenwood, N.S. lost six good men on the afternoon of October, 2nd 1998 - "That Others May Live" - In memory of the Labrador [...]
The 1/48th Hasegawa F-14A Tomcats weren't introduced until the late 1980s and were quickly hailed as the best detailed Tomcat kit. The option to drop slats and flaps was a first for a 1/48th F-14 kit however (as with most F-14 model kits) [...]
The 1/48th Hasegawa P-47D Thunderbolt kit release in 1996 reset the bar for the best Thunderbolt on the market... for a few years anyway. I wanted to have Gabby Gabreski's uniquely painted P-47 Thunderbolt in my collection for some time [...]
If you haven't built a 1/48th Tamiya Mosquito you may want to consider one. A model of this caliber can serve as a benchmark of what an excellent kit encompasses or just be that great, low-stress build when you need one. (Say for example, [...]
Back in the 80s when I got interested in Vietnam era aircraft, I started collecting reference material from books and magazines (because this was before the Internet) One gem of a book was Lou Drendel's "...And Kill MiGs". I [...]
Hobbycraft introduced their 1/48th CF-100 Mk.V in 1989 followed by their 1/48th CF-100 Mk.IV in 1990. Hobbycraft specialty was releasing Canadian aircraft types that no other manufacturer would produce in an injection mold kit. While the [...]
Although this 2004 kit is boxed as a 1/48th Monogram F-4E Phantom II, the plastic mold is actually the 80s Hasegawa F-4E. I built this aircraft in the markings of 68-0338 which had two MiG kill markings on the splitter plate. The victories [...]
The 1/48th Kinetic CS2F (S-2A) Tracker is a nice kit to work with (sure it could have been better, however I will settle for a very buildable kit that you can make into a great display aircraft.) Probably an intermediate experience build, [...]
I was surprised to come across this 1/48th Gallery Models CH-34 Choctaw kit at a local Hobby Show a few years back as I didn't know of its existence. My mind raced to remember if this CH-34 was the same basic model used by Canada in [...]
