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Wing modeller, father of 4 and a Luftwaffe enthusiast...all my hobbies in no particular order

Hasegawa Fw 190 A-5: giving a long time shelf queen new robes

Few months ago I purchased a decal sheet from a new company named Exito Decals, simply because it had a trio of nice, never before presented in decal form (as far as I know) FW.190s. One of them, Yellow 5, was a one of a kind eastern front [...]

Bump - Group Build idea: Teeth & Fangs

Ok, time for a bump around this GB idea (link) Time lapse suggestion: June 1st - 31st December, any scales, all genres Any one who miss the first post and finds this idea interesting enough to join please say so, there are so many subjects [...]

Phoney War Emil

Airfix 109 E-1, made some 2 years ago. Thought I'd share with you. Kit has some AM stuff (Pavla resin, but that rudder is poorly shaped) and Lifelike decals (awesome)

Group Build idea : Teeth & Fangs

Men always resorted to the animal kingdom imaginary as a mean to bring up those primary fears, those that came from times where men wasn’t still the top of the food chain. So adorning shields, flags and weaponry with feared animals [...]

Black shark: Airfix Defiant

What can I say? The Defiant and particularly this aircraft was long overdue on my wish list. In fact it was more than 30 years long due. I was a young boy when my father offered me Airfix 1/72 BP Defiant and the model shown on the box was [...]

Review: AK Real Color Air- Is their marketing hype accurate?

Most of you have probably came across banners, printed advertisement or even some you tube stuff about AK Interactive new paint line, Real Colors. They kicked off a few months ago with an extensive AFV and Tank colors, covering several [...]

Review: Exito Decals from Poland

I'm sure you all heard or read about this new decal manufacturer elsewhere, but I got their brand new sheet Wulf Pack pt1and the quality presented raises the bar on the decal AM niche. As you can see in the photos it comes in a A4 size [...]

Open day at the Air Force Museum

Spent the morning enjoying the annual Portuguese AF day at AF Base 1 near my house and home of the Airforce Museum. Only show the outdoor pictures, where you can see some of the museum inventory that is kept outdoors (the Neptune sure [...]

Not Tamiya… but Zvezda 109 G-6 1/48

I've started some months ago a WIP doing a side by side build of 2 bf.109 G-6, one from Eduard and the other from the lesser know mould of the russian company Zvezda. As you can see the kit builds very well providing one carefully reads [...]

Now completed: Butcher bird over the Steppes