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While I mostly model WW II aircraft, I will make any model that strikes my fancy.
Adding to my continually growing Spitfire collection (I may have a problem), here’s my tenth completed kit for this year, the AZ Model 1/72 Spitfire Mk. VII. This is a pretty good kit. It has good detail and good fit.
I decided to try [...]
One year when I was a kid my parents bought me Aircraft in Profile vol. 7 as a Christmas present. I always looked through these books with glee and fascination when we went to the bookstore. They were too expensive at the time so I was [...]
Here’s my old school version of the old school Heller 1/72 Spitfire I. I bought this kit for a buck at a contest last summer and since it wasn’t even close to modern kit standards, I decided to build it like I did when I was a kid: out [...]
As part of my continuing “Spitfirepalooza” here’s my attempt at the Revell 1/72 Spitfire Mk. IIa. This was a good little project. The only big fit issue I had was the common wing-to-fuselage step which took a couple puttying and [...]
Here’s my 1/72 KP Models Avia B.35. It’s a very basic kit with soft exterior detail and a canopy that makes the generic detail in the cockpit very difficult to see.
Nevertheless, I enjoyed making this unusual addition to my [...]
This is a kit that one could literally work on for a lifetime. I considered it. Panels galore to be painted in a myriad of grays and metallics and washes and filters to create variegated versions of those.
Ultimately, I needed to call the [...]
Here’s my version of the Airfix Gloster Meteor F. 8. Much has been written about this kit so I won’t bore you with more of the same. This makes kit number four for the year.
Model number three for the year. This one I started and finished in 2019! This is the Fujimi 1/72 Spitfire mk. XIVc.
The cockpit is quite sparse. Fortunately the Eduard mk IX has a few extra parts in it so I used them to dress it up a [...]
Last year I started quite a few kits but for various reasons (none good really) I only finished one. So one of my goals for this year is to either finish last year’s previously started kits or “send them on their way.”
Second on my [...]
My first completed kit for the year, I present a Special Hobby 1/72 CAC C-3/5 Wirraway.
On the whole this was an enjoyable build. It was a pretty easy kit especially for a short run model. The only issue for me was that the exhausts [...]
