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I have been modelling since 'Before Plastic' when balsa was the popular material. Thank heavens for modern technology!
My interest is aircraft; preferably 1/48 & 1/32 scale & mostly WWII ,1950's & '60's. I like a challenge & while a perfect kit is always welcome, some are just plain scary with all the intricately engineered parts' provided. It's a relief to get hold of something that requires some ingenuity but is cheap enough so that a mistake is unlikely to cause a financial disaster.

Revell’s 1/32 Bf 109-K4

Pretty much straight OOB. Bf 109s have a great attraction for me because of the infinite variety of camouflage schemes. This is my third in this scale & now I'm waiting for the new Revell G-10 to appear. The build was pretty straight [...]

Kittyhawk Mk.IV 450 Sqn. RAAF, Vatso, Italy, 1944.

Being very partial to RAAF desert camouflage, I couldn't resist this Hasegawa 1/48 scale kit. Goes together beautifully. The 'No Orchids" cowling panel was apparently moved to successive aircraft , hence the green background to this [...]

Hasegawa Spitfire Mk VIII 'Hava Go Jo!!' in 1/48

When I first built this kit it was hot off the press & being well & truly bagged on the internet. I don't usually run a ruler over my models, preferring to the eyeball Mk.1 to gauge accuracy. In this case, the critics were right [...]

Gloster Javelin FAW 9 in 1/48 by Airfix

Having built the Airfix Canberra PR 9 & the Sea Vixen with a great deal of pleasure I was lucky enough to win this kit at our monthly IPMS raffle. I think the Javelin is Airfix's best yet. Fit of parts was perfect; no filler anywhere. [...]

Hasegawa’s Hurricane IIc in 1/48 scale by Tony Prince.

A very nice model kit; the second one I've built of Hasegawa's. Straight out of the box except for the canopy. The RAF in the CBI theatre seems to be largely forgotten & had to soldier on with outdated equipment long after more modern [...]

Airfix Spitfire Mk XII in 1/48 scale

This is Airfix's recent kit release which I built shortly after it hit the shops. It's pretty much out of the box, but a couple of points made me a little reluctant to post images. I felt that the belly tank detracted from the profile [...]

Hasegawa’s Kawanishi N1K2 Shiden-Kai in 1/48.

Before we get to George...A big thank you to iModeller for my Random Draw prize kit. I chose an Eduard Spitfire (you can never have too many Spitfires!) which arrived the other day. Today's offering has a very long-winded name, so you may [...]

Royal Navy Corsair II Tamiya 1/48

Always a favourite with me & I know I'm not alone. Tamiya do a superb kit here & I really like this colour scheme for the Fleet Air Arm. This one has the clipped wing tips necessary to fit (folded) in the hangar deck & [...]

Eduard's 1/48 scale Hawker Tempest V. by Tony Prince

Doing my monthly dusting of my display shelves I picked up this Tempest. A long time favourite of mine which has repeatedly survived periodic culling This is the first release of the Tempest from Eduard & my build dates from around [...]

ICM Spitfire Mk. IX in 1/48 scale, by Tony Prince

OK, I accept that I'm a Spitfire enthusiast. That said, it follows that I have bought & made just about every brand of Spitfire kit in 1/48 almost as soon as they hit the hobby shop. This was my third ICM Spitfire & in this [...]