Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
The model is the Monogram 1/48 Mirage 2000, the instructions are dated 1986. I built the kit somewhere between '93 and '95. It had never been photographed at all until last Tuesday. When it was built way back then, I had very little [...]
Model built from a scrap of a very old kit!
Many pieces have been replaced and a lot has completed the technique of scratchbuilding (using aluminum cans).
The model has all the movable parts (doors, access, rotors) as the original!
A [...]
This model represents the plane flown by Flight Leader Charles "Chuck" Older for the AVG in China 1941/42.
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This is my latest project, a P-40E from FAB during WWII. This plane was used in patrol along the Atlantic in Natal (Parnamirim Airfield), Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
This plane was part of the first lot of 6 P-40E received as part [...]
The Fleet Air Arm suffered in the early years of the war for the lack of a carrier‑based fighter that had performance sufficient to face the land‑based Axis air forces on any basis of equality. This was nowhere more apparent than in [...]
This kit is effectively the 1/48 kit scaled down, and Eduard have done a great job of cramming as much detail as possible into the smaller version. Surface detail was superb, and the fit of parts virtually perfect except where the engine [...]
As a break from my Mossie build I thought I would "knock" this together, but you know me. The soft detail and vague fitting made me want to see what I could do with it so break out the wire and Evergreen. Quite a lot of the [...]
I built this kit a while back. I have seen this aircraft at Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum/Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at the Dulles Airport in Washington DC. It is HUGE!
I ran across some photos taken right after the war when [...]
