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Kipling Mitchell

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I have been a model maker for over 40 years.

Monogram 1/48 A6M5 Zero

by Kipling Mitchell on March 3, 2016 · in Aviation · 12 ≡

The Monogram A6M5 Zero is a very simple model. It has no real cockpit detail, a one piece canopy, and you can see through it looking from below through the wheel wells, when the landing gear is down. But when I was 14 years old, I won my [...]

1/48 Scale Monogram P-51D Mustang

by Kipling Mitchell on March 1, 2016 · in Aviation · 9 ≡

Well, after over 40 years of building aircraft models, I finally got around to doing one with a natural metal finish. I have always had reservations about doing NM, as I am a brush painter, and I have always heard that you will have to use [...]