Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
A friend at work gave me this as a gift for Christmas and said build that before the 6th of January when we return to work! so I did đ
1/72 I would not usually bother with as it is way too small for me and my skills but it was a welcome [...]
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I've just learned that Casemate Publishers, the best military history publication house in the country, has picked up my book, "Fabled Fifteen: Air Group 15 in the Pacific War," the [...]
I became aware of Stan Staples in 1967. I obtained a copy of a magazine entitled â1001 model airplane ideas, clubs you can joinâ published by Delta magazines. The purpose of the magazine was to promote an awareness of IPMS. There were [...]
This is a model of an aircraft of VF-91 (N) flown off Bon Homme Richard during the end of 1945. The is an OOB, with the exception of the radar dome on the right wing, Otaki kit. I built this quite a number of years ago and it is showing [...]
Here's some small kits i put together.
The apache and the Viggen are in 1/144 scale, and the others are even smaller scales.
They are from the top:
AH-64D Longbow apache
B-1B
Tu-144 'Concordskij'
SAAB 37 Viggen prototype
Ariane, ESA's [...]
This is academys 1/48 kit of the Hughes 500D with TOW anti-tank missiles.
A very nice kit to build and there is a number of different kits using the same basic moulds.
It has good detail and a good fit.
I built it almost out of the box, I [...]
This is Italeris kit of the Finnish version of BAE Hawk.
It has somewhat better detailing than the usual Italeri kits.
I only did some minor detailing and weathering with a graphite pencil.
This is another nice kit from Hasegawa, built out of the box.
Unfortunatley I used Johnson floorpolish as clear coat on this model, and put too thick layers of it, so the polish has cracked in some places (you can see it under the cockpit [...]
Hello! Another model of the box - at that time it Po-2, owned by Aviation border troops of the USSR, the 50s of the last century. Built with little or no modifications, only slightly fiddled with wing-racks. Online not so many models of [...]
Hasegawa's excellent Typhoon made better with the inclusion of Barracuda cockpit, wheels and exhaust, invasion stripes, roundels and fin flashes were painted with the Montex Masks, I'm really liking these masks.
