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After being away from the modellers scene for more than 35 years, I restarted this hobby in 2018.
A gift from a friend made me enthiousiastic again.
It really surprised me about the improvements that have been made in all these years regarding the quality of the kits and the techniques and materials available to create realistics looking models.
Mainly into building 1/48 WWII planes.
So much has already been said about this iconic aircraft and recently Spiros @fiveten wrote a nice article while presenting his Starfighter in Greek livery.
This build is part of the triple build by George @gblair, Spiros @fiveten and [...]
Hi all,
By the end of last year George @gblair came up with a wonderful idea and provided Spiros @fiveten and me with this amazing gift, the Italeri in 1/72 scale. The idea was to build this iconic aircraft in the colors of the countries [...]
This wonderful kit was given to me by my daughter as a birthday present. I do know that she really likes this car a lot, so maybe it is a hint to eventually buy her a 1:1. She definitely convinced me with this kit that the looks of this [...]
Although I do like the looks of multi-wing aircraft, they are not my favorite ones to build due to their complexity, especially the rigging. After receiving an invitation to participate in the wonderful "The Great War: a Tribute to [...]
After my completion of the Dam Buster Lancaster with the aircraft codes of Commanding Officer Guy Gibson, I read that after his Dam Buster adventure he flew the De Havilland Mosquito in which he unfortunately crashed near Steenbergen, the [...]
Presenting the Repsol Honda RC213V motorcycle on which Marc Márquez became world chamion in 2014.
The reason I build this bike is because it was gifted to me by my daughter. What more to wish. Besides being a fan of various car racing [...]
Finally I was able to finish my entry of the Sabre/Fury groupbuild, the Academy F86 Sabre in 1/48 scale.
Last year I received this amazing gift from Spiros @fiveten when he and his wonderful family visited the Netherlands.
It was a great [...]
As part of the "80th Anniversary of Dambuster Raid - group build!" created by Bernard @lis, I entered with the Revell kit 04295 in 1/72 scale. It was already 10 months ago that I received this kit and it still took two months [...]
This kit was sent to me by Bernard @lis, it was a great and wonderful surprise. Besides the kit, other surprises were the included masking sheet for the upper surface camouflage scheme and a decal sheet with lots of various marking [...]
My first finished model in 2024. First modern aircraft in years as is valid for a RNLAF aircraft.
When Erik @airbum created this group build for the Falcon at 50 years, I could not resist to build one in RNLAF scheme of 311 squadron [...]
