266 articles · 15K karma · 13 friends · active 3 days, 6 hours ago
The doublepack naval theme continues, first of two Hellcats by my dad.
Eduard Profipack 2008 edition, built oob, added EZ Line for the antenna wire. Painted with MRP Sea Blue, Intermediate Blue and AK RC White.
Build thread [...]
Besides all the US naval stuff by my dad, he decided to turn Japanese a bit.
New Eduard kit, a bit over-engineered, lots of detail but also many small plastic and PE parts. Fuselage to wing fit had some tension and needed work. Engine [...]
So, here´s my dad´s fifth and last yellow winged chubby naval fighter.
Hobby Boss kit mostly oob, added seatbelts, antenna wire with EZ Line, fuselage code decals were to large and upper wing numbers way too small, used some decals from [...]
My dad finished the next double pack. After the two F3F, now the second F2A. Another contribution to the Jim Sullivan Memorial GB.
Classic Airframes kit, which as expected needed some more work than the Tamiya F2A-2. Canopy parts didn´t [...]
After the Peruvian Tucano, here´s an Ecuadorian counterpart for the Cenepa War between the two countries in 1995.
My dad used the nice Trumpeter kit with Aztec decals. Painted with a lightened Gunze H331 BSC Dark Sea Grey, Gunze H303 [...]
My dad´s yellow wing theme still continues. Also this is his first contribution to the Jim Sullivan Memorial GB.
As usual some glitches but all in all not bad for a 75 year old man and a 49 year old kit
Tamiya kit, early 90ies edition, [...]
After the F3F-1, here´s my dad´s next little chubby yellow winged fighter.
Accurate Miniatures kit, decals from this kit, the F3F-1 kit and the sparesbox, fuselage painted with Mr Paint White Aluminium, wings with AK RC Yellow and [...]
My dad´s next biplane, the first of some upcoming yellow wing subjects.
Accurate Miniatures kit, accidentally decals for their -2 kit were packed in the box, so my dad decided to use them and do a Marines bird, all the numbers were [...]
After the Airfix Walrus, now an Airfix Classic.
My dad wanted to do a silver bird, so he decided to build the Airfix Lightning which I bought him as a present for last Christmas.
Didn´t turn out perfect and has its glitches but all in all [...]
And my dad has finshed the next one, after the Swordfish now another iconic British biplane.
Airfix kit oob. The multi-part fuselage turned out slightly warped, so the wings and tailplane alignement isn´t perfect either. Had to let sit [...]
