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Have been a member here for 10 years. Enjoy building scale model aircraft and armour. My focus is world war 2 but I intend to begin building jet aircraft models in 2022. I created my own website to show my work.

Web Site:
http://ghmicro.wix.com/twis-first-cut

Spitfire MK.Vc Royal Australian Airforce.

Eduard's 1/48 Spitfire Vc. in the markings of Clive "Killer" Caldwell flying out of Northern Australia. Caldwell was the RAAF's leading Ace of WW2 and flew a number of Spitfire variants. This is one of his Vc's with Serial BS295.

P-38F "The Sad Sack" Tamiya's 1/48 P-38

Here's my latest aircraft model. Tamiya's P-38F in the markings of "The Sad Sack" The Sad Sack was flown by leading scorers of the U.S. Army Airforce's 82nd FG, including Maj. Robert Kirtley (4/2/2), Maj. Ernest 'Hawk' Osher [...]

Eduard/Hasegawa 1:72 B-25J Medium Bomber

Hi Guys, I just finished this (more or less) B-25J I did for a group a build. This North American B-25J was named Angel of Mercy and flew with the 412th Bombing Squadron, 310th Bomb Group 12th U.S. Airforce out of Corsica, France in [...]

Tamiya’s P-51B in the livery of Don S. Gentile’s “Shangri-La”. USAAF 4th Fighter Group early 1944.

My completed P-51B Shangri -La. I enjoyed this build which was mostly out of the box with the exception of the main landing gear wheels which are from Hussar. I also used the Lifelike Decals set for this aircraft. The build log can be [...]

Hasegawa 1/48 P-47D-25 "Coffey's Pot"

Here's my Hasegawa P-47D-25 "Coffey's Pot" aircraft flown by Lt. Col Robert Coffey with the 365th Fighter Group, "The Hell Hawks" during D-Day Operations over Normandy. The kit has some inaccuracies as stated by Tom [...]

Hawker Typhoon (Late) 439 RCAF Squadron

Here's my 1/48 scale Hasegawa Hawker Typhoon IB I did a few years back. I started a build log here but was never able to post some completed pictures. This Typhoon served with 439 Squadron RCAF near the end of the war in Europe. It has [...]

Tokyo Defender: Hasegawa 1/32 Ki-61 Hien

HI Folks, Haven't been here in quite a while but wanted to share some builds I completed and posted on other sites. Here is my 1/.32 Ki-61 Hien built as Major Teruhiko Kobayashi's aircraft that he flew with the 244th Sentai famously [...]

Battle of the Bulge M4A3E8 Sherman U.S. 4th Armoured Division Bastogne.

Hi Guys, Here's a vignette of my M4A3E8 Sherman that I built using Tasca's excellent Sherman kit. I wanted to model a picture of an "E8" during the battle of the bulge and I found a picture of one that was taken just outside [...]

F4U-1A Corsair VF-17 “Jolly Rogers”

This is my Tamiya 1/48 Scale F4U-1A corsair painted in the markings of Lt. JG. Danny Cunningham during his first tour with VF-17 flying out of Ondongo Airfield in the South West Pacific. Hope you like it. David.