Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
I have recently started making model aircraft again for the first time since my childhood.
I thought some people might be interested to read kit reviews and builds from a nearly total newbies point of view, with all the challenges and [...]
This is the superlative Wingnut Wings kit. I built it pretty much straight from the box with the exception of the ignition wiring that I added with brass wire. The minimal control surface rigging at the rear of plane was done with [...]
Good morning: This is my first posting to this group. I have included a few photos of my recently completed Hobbyboss F4U-4B in 1/48 scale. I added Aires wheel wells and cockpit along with some True Details "un-flattened" [...]
Hi all
Here I am again. This time with a model I did last year.
This Tamiya Mustang is a beauty to build, very straightforward almost no filler required as we can expect from a Tamiya kit.
The aluminium paint is the H8 Chrome Silver from [...]
Hi Guys, This is a small Diorama i did towards the end of last summer and managed to finish in time for the Scale Model World at Telford in Shropshire England.
It all Started with the Tamiya 1/100 scale IL28 Beagle, at the time i was still [...]
I wanted to build an earlier version of the P2V Neptune and selected the 20mm cannon armed P2V-5 as my subject. The Hasegawa 1/72nd P2V-7 kit was the starting point and I used the fine Falcon P2V-5 vacuform conversion set for the major [...]
At the end of 1943, Obstlt. Walter Oesau introduced a new emblem for JG1- a red winged ‘1’ in a white diamond, which was enclosed in a red circle. My model represents a speculative interpretation of the Gruppe Kommodeurs machine from [...]
Hi there!
This model I did a few years ago, but besides that it is still one of my favorites.
As usual this was an OOTB build and painted with Tamiya acrilics mixed by myself.
Hope you like it!
Cheers
T'was Aaron Newland's Trainer group build that limped across the finish line.
"You Dont see many of these at the model shows" its the 1/72 Extrakit Supermarine Scimitar.
And the reason you dont see many of them is it is a complete PIG to build the first thing i noticed at the start of the build was that [...]
