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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 [...]
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 [...]
