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My dad finished another Latin American subject.
Hobby Boss kit built OOB. As usual, HB has some accuracy issues, for example they mixed up the landing gear with their EMB-314 kit. Did a minor correction to the outer main landing gear doors [...]
My dad hasn´t done a British aircraft, at least with British markings, for a while. Now it was about time.
Great Tamiya kit, also used Tamiya´s PE set for the rigging. Not a bad idea, worth a try and didn´t turn out too bad. But for the [...]
After the Cuban T-33, my dad continues with the Latin American subjects.
Airfix Canadair F4 kit with Aztec decals. The white weapons block on the left nose side isn´t provided by Aztec, made a rectangle with decal stripes. Also the nose [...]
After Tamiya´s little Möbelwagen, now my dad built another AA tank.
Once again wonderful quarter scale Tamiya kit oob, painted with a selfmixed paint for the SCC15.
Build thread here
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1st Royal Tank Regiment, 22nd Armoured Brigade, [...]
After the Lotus 72 not that long ago, my dad now finished another legendary race car. Well, it didn´t turn out "perfect", but which model does?
Fujimi kit which dates back to 1989, this is the 2000 edition. Thekit decals [...]
After a longer pause and for some diversion between all the aircraft, my dad built a little armour model.
Great Tamiya kit, falls together, painted with Tamiya XF-60/62/64
Build thread here
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So, this is my dad´s last good old Hasegawa 109, only a few Eduard ones left in the stash.
Markings taken from the Eduard Regensburg kit. Also Eduard seatbelts and cockpit fuel line used. Plastic rods and lead wire for the brake lines, EZ [...]
New year, new count...
Here´s my dad´s first finished model in 2023.
Academy edition of the old Hobbycraft kit, markings from Hi-Decal. Had some True Details (Squadron) T-33 resin seats in our stash. Although they are a bit too low for [...]
My dad´s now 75 and still cranks out one model after another, hope he still has some good years ahead.
All aircraft models in 1/48, the F1 car in 1/20.
Most probably my dad´s last finished model for 2022.
Ebbro kit, painted with with AK Real Color Signal Red, Tamiya XF-2 Flat White and Gunze H9 Gold. Used aftermarket decals from F'artefice for the missing cigarette ads.
Used elastic [...]
