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I've been building models since the early 1960s. Kept at it ever since, including 25 years in the US Navy.
I build cars, 1/700 ships and 1/72 WWI aircraft, and at this moment, focusing on the 1/700 ships.
This is the Niko resin kit of the French aviso Protet. The classification "aviso" has been used by France for a small ship, similar to other nations' frigate or corvette. The Niko kit represented the class later in life, when [...]
Aurora was a protected cruiser, built in 1903. She served in the 1904 Russo-Japanese war in the Battle of Tsushima, WWI, the Russian Revolution, WW2, and is now a memorial in St Petersburg. As the story goes, the revolutionaries fired a [...]
