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Wife keeps telling me that I am too young to be building plastic planes, I should wait till retirement. Discovered the hobby during the great pandemic lockdown of 2020 and I am greatly enjoying it.
Quite the beginner, the objective is to learn the trade by building myself a collection of World War 2 fighters in 1/48 scale. That will keep me busy for a while.
A fun kit with virtually no issues, built out of the box with masks and decals from Montex for this livery, Tamiya paints and hand-made masks for the camo scheme. Some light weathering with soft-pastels blended along the panel lines with a [...]
Good kit, the variant Me 262 A-1a/U1, a bit fantasy from what I read. First time I attach some ordnance on a scale model plane, I liked the idea of rockets on the first jet fighter, even that maybe the build is wrong. The good news is that [...]
The first idea with this kit was to repeat the experiment with the painting masks for insignia, which proved to be a total failure. I painted the propeller spinner white, then applied the mask for the spiral, sprayed it dark green – the [...]
Being quite lazy I tend to favor Tamiya kits, to eliminate any headaches from the start. Now this one here was an experiment in using Montex masks for the serial numbers and national insignia - something in line with the bad reputation of [...]
Another Romanian subject, this time a Bf-109 E. This model tries to replicate a machine that fought on the Eastern Front, including Stalingrad, with the help of a great Tamiya kit and RB decals.
What baffled me was that Romanian fighter [...]
This summer a bunch of photographs surfaced from a movie studio archive depicting some IAR-80's in a very sorry state. The photographs were taken in 1954 during the production of a movie and stayed unknown until recently.
IAR-80 was the [...]
