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I have been building plastic models since 70’s, and started with Airfix 1/72 scale aircrafts. Those were quite cheap here in Finland and suitable for little kid like me. Then I quit for several years, and started again around year 2010.
Nowadays 1/72 scale is too small for me, so I prefer 1/48 and 1/32 in aircraft modelling, and 1/35 for armor. Mostly I build aircrafts and armor, but occasionally also ships and dioramas.
Old Vietnam veteran from 435th Tactical Fighter Squadron (1966 - 1974) (Tail Code: FO), 8th Tactical Fighter Wing.
Tamiya released kit (60305) in 1995, so it's quite old (and huge in this scale). Kit was completed in year 2022.
Painted [...]
Captain Robert L. Faurot (39th FS, 35th FG, 5th AF) P-38 F-5-LO, Port Moresby, New Guinea, 1943
Tamiya kit (61120) with some Eduard aftermarket decals, seat belts and instrument panel. Very nice kit to build, typical excellent Tamiya [...]
Tamiya 1/32 F4U-1 Corsair "Birdcage".
Pilot: Lt (junior grade) James Halford, VF-17 "Jolly Rogers", USS Bunker Hill, 1943
Model completed in year 2021. Tamiya kit (60324) was excellent, one of the best kits I have ever [...]
Detachment Kuhlmey's (Schlachtgeschwader 1./SG 5) "Black 10" In Immola Finland during summer 1944. Pilot was Feldwebel Hartmut Gettwart.
If you have some interest about the history of detachment Kuhlmey, please see more: [...]
