Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Well, here are the photos of my Tumpeter 1/48 Spiteful. I finished it months ago, but had some life issues and have now only now posted them. I did add the air intake on the cowling, drilled out the exhaust and cannon, added a whip [...]
This was one of the many Canberra variants produced by Airfix when they turned over a new leaf & started making their much improved kits. Not perfect but well worth building. I was lucky enough to pick it up at our local IPMS club for [...]
This is the aircraft of Sq Ldr. R.P.Beamont, leader of 609 Squadron. I have no further information on the details of this squadron or it's leader.
This is the Hasegawa 1/48 kit and it was made out of the box with the exception of [...]
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 [...]
Pardon the unpaid self-promotion ( đ ):
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.
