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US Navy 1984-1988
US Army 1999-2008

iModeler Review: Airfix 1/72 Hawker Typhoon IB

Hawker Typhoon Mk.IB 1/72 scale Airfix Kit No. A02041 72 gray parts 2 clear parts 2 marking options Airfix kits seem to be getting a little better, and better, with each new release. Having said that, I’ve thought that [...]

Tamiya 1/48 North American P-51D Mustang : “Blondie”

North American P-51 D Mustang. "Blondie", as flown by Lt Marvin Arthur,334th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group. One of Tamiya's finer kits, I think. OOB with Eduard seat harness. Finished with Testor's buffable Metallizer [...]

CyberHobby 1/72 DeHavilland Vampire FB.5

This is the CyberHobby 1/72 DeHavilland Vampire FB.5, warts and all. As previously mentioned in my in-box review, the cockpit is sparse and entirely fictitious. For the most part, construction was straightforward. I filled and sanded out [...]

1/48 Hasegawa Messerschmitt Bf-109K-4

From early 2010... Built OOB. Gunze-Sangyo acrylics. Not much else to add, I'm afraid. Just wanted to post something today and get some sweet, sweet karma. 🙂

Accurate Miniatures' 1/48 scale Vought SB2U-1 Vindicator

Here's the Accurate Miniatures Vought SB2U-1 "Vindicator". I started it in 2005, and when I laid down the natural metal finish (Alclad II) to replicate the silver-colored lacquer "dope" used on the fabric, it reacted [...]

iModeler Review: CyberHobby 1/72 DeHavilland Vampire FB.5

CyberHobby 1/72 DeHavilland Vampire FB.5 Kit # 5085 Parts: 40+ RETAIL PRICE: USD 24.95 The DeHaviland Vampire FB.5 is the single-seat, fighter-bomber version of Britain’s second production jet fighter. Powered by the Goblin 2 turbojet , [...]

1/48 Hasegawa F6F-3 Hellcat

I decided to pull the venerable Hasegawa kit out of the pile and slap it together. I started about 10 days ago, and had it built in about 4 days. The rest of the time was spent painting and weathering. As ususal, it's built OOB. Tamiya [...]

1/72 Tamiya Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik

I recently did an in-box review of this kit for iModeler...here is the finished product. The kit is engineered very well, as one would expect from Tamiya. Interestingly, I found the plastic to be slightly softer than what I am used to [...]

1/35 DML Sd.Kfz. 184 Schwerer Jagdpanzer "Elefant"

Here is another model I built a few years ago. This was DML's "Premium" kit - I don't even remember why it was called that. The zimmerit was applied and sculpted from two-part epoxy putty (Tamiya), using a homemade tool I [...]

1/48 Eduard Focke-Wulf FW-190A-8

Here's one that i built a few years ago, when the Eduard kit was released. I remember there being some online angst regarding the thickness of chord around the vertical tail empanage. I found it to be pretty much accurate based on my own [...]