167 articles · 43K karma · 43 friends · active 23 hours, 30 minutes ago
I mostly do 1/48 USN and British Commonwealth aircraft, all eras. I also have a weakness for WW1 German planes and 1/700 ships.
This is the newly released Academy model. It’s actually a re-pop of the Minicraft kit. Academy has been slowly reissuing Minicraft’s more popular kits recently. I always wanted one of these but waited too long as Minicraft went out [...]
This is the Roden kit which has been available for a few years. I’ve always wanted one of these in this scale and bought it when it was a brand new release. Unfortunately, the decals were useless as always with Roden products. Vintage [...]
This started life as a Berlin Airlift boxing of the Minicraft kit. I picked it up at a swap meet for $3. A deal too good to refuse! This is also how stashes grow exponentially, lol. Anyways, I was going to build it using the kit [...]
This is the early 1980s Esci kit in its naval guise. Esci marketed the basic kit as both an FJ-2/3 and an F-86E with a few different parts in each release. I saw George Blair started the F-86E version of this kit over on the Sabre [...]
This is the 1996 Airfix kit with a few upgrades. I actually built it for a group build on Roy Sutherland’s Barracuda Studios Facebook page. I incorporated the following Barracuda products into the model: replacement prop blades, [...]
This is the newish Platz kit finished with Tamiya lacquer paints and Vintage Flyer decals. It represents a Slick Airways freighter during the late 1940s. Slick was a significant American cargo carrier between 1946 and 1966 when it was [...]
This is the new Airfix kit which I was fortunate to receive as a surprise for Christmas from my wonderful wife. She heard me discussing it with a friend and lamenting that it probably wouldn’t get to the US til mid 2024. She found a [...]
This is the Hasegawa Kittyhawk Mk.III kit finished as a P-40K, my favorite P-40 variant. It represents an 18th FS machine based on Amchitka Island, Alaska during the Aleutian campaign of 1943. The decals are from DK’s Pacific/China [...]
I finally got to build my first Eduard Wildcat. Eduard hit a home run with this one. Not only is it an accurate FM-2, but Eduard really raised the bar for 1/48 Wildcats. This kit renders the Tamiya Wildcat obsolete and in my opinion [...]
This is the Academy PBY-5A finished as a RCAF Canso A. The Canso was a license built Catalina manufactured by Boeing Canada and Canadian Vickers. The one I chose to model was a Canadian Vickers built machine from the last production [...]
