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Tamiya 1/48 M10 Wolverine Tank Destroyer

Besides aircraft, my father builds 1/48 Armour too for diversion. Built this in 2014. Tamiya´s M10 tank hunter, built oob, Gunze and Tamiya acrylics used, pastel chalks and Tamiya sets for weathering, the additional equipment are [...]

Hasegawa 1/48 Lockheed P-38L Lightning 15th AF

Another contribution by my dad to our Airwar over Austria theme, built in 2015. Hasegawa kit (Putt-Putt-Maru boxing), one of their weaker kits, with Kagero decals (miniTopcolors 33, Lightnings at War Pt.II) Painted with Tamiya X-32 [...]

Revell 1/48 Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress 15th AF

All good big Revell kits come in three ;-D built by my father 4 years ago as part of our still ongoing theme "Airwar over Austria". Revell USA kit with Superscale decals and Gunze/Tamiya acrylics. Regarding that the molds are [...]

ProModeler/Revell 1/48 Junkers Ju52/3m g3e Nightbomber Austrian Airforce

Also built two years ago by my dad. Didn´t knew that much about the Ju52 versions before that build. Thought with the ProModeler kit it would be an easy OOB thing because the kit includes the additional bomber parts, to say the belly [...]

Revell 1/48 Douglas C-47 Dakota USAAF PTO

Built two years ago. Because there are a lot of D-Day striped Dakota models out there, I convinced my father to do a PTO aircraft. Revell Germany kit (Berlin airlift) with North Star Models decals. They came without US insignias (and the [...]

Eduard 1/48 Bf109G-10 (WNF/Diana) II./JG52

End of year factory clearing ? the next one finished. Eduard kit with Avalon decals, EZ Line for the antenna wire, plastic rods for brake lines, AK Real Color RLM76, Gunze and Tamiya for the upper RLM 75/83 camo (75 was lightened up a [...]

Hasegawa 1/48 Curtiss P-40K Warhawk Soviet Airforce/VVS

And another one finshed. Hasegawa kit with Authentic Decals, AK Real Color AMT-7 and AMT-11, EZ Line for antenna wires and brake lines, Eduard seatbelts The model shows an aircraft of the 760th fighter regiment, 261st composite division in [...]

Eduard 1/48 Siemens-Schuckert-Werke D.III Deutsche Luftstreitkräfte

After a long pause my father finally build a new WW1 model. This is Eduard´s latest boxing of the Schuckert D.III, used EZ Line for the rigging and for the first time some Gaspatch PE turnbuckles. All the large lozenge decals were a PITA [...]

Airfix 1/48 Hawker Sea Fury FB.II, Fuerza Aerea Revolucionaria

Some more Latin-American stuff from my father. Airfix kit (export version), Quickboost gunsight (kit has none), Eduard Superfabric RAF seatbelts, Barracuda Studios replacement resin cowl, a scratch part for the missing headrest [...]

GWH 1/48 Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star Target Tug, Imperial Iranian Airforce

After P-47, F-84, F-86 and F-4, this is my father´s newest addition to our IIAF collection. He used the GWH kit, which is mostly very nice, together with the freshly released decal sheet from Hi-Decal. Painted with Gunze Orange with a [...]