Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Background
The Kawanishi E7K grew out of an Imperial Japanese Navy requirement for a replacement for the Kawanishi E5K observation seaplane. The Kawanishi Type 94 was the result (the designation E7K1 was a later application). Kawanishi [...]
Having examined Tamiya's instructions of the F-16C/N, I was inspired to enhance the old Hasegawa 1/48 F-16 kit with plenty of spare parts from Tamiya's F-16CJ kit and added Legend's ejection seats. The final results would not have been [...]
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On January 19, 2024, the USAF museum at Wright-Patterson handed over their restored B-17G “Shoo Shoo Shoo BABY” to the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center, swapping the G for a B-17D “The Swoose”, the oldest [...]
This is 1/32 Trumpeter P-47D-22 RE (s/n 42-26249) named Kansas Tornado flown by Lt. Howard J. Curran of 510th FS 405th FG in Picauville -France September 1944.
Cockpit modified with Eduard instrument panel and seat belts
Other additions [...]
Here’s a couple of my builds of the Polikarpov R-5. Many years ago I built the all-resin R-5sss by Rest Models in Spanish Republican livery. It was a nice kit with good detail. However, after a few weeks of sitting on the shelf I [...]
Here are the highlights and the downfalls of Trumpeter's Hellcat. The model captures well the stalky outlines of this great fighter. Wing fold part design is superb. Easy to install and does not strain plastic hinges. A tow tractor kit is [...]
That was Bert Kinzey's summation of the Tamiya A-10 in his Detail & Scale volume. I think it applies to the Accurate Miniatures P-51 series as well. The first three kits released by the then start-up company are now thirty years old. I [...]
1/48 Hasegawa P-51D. Col. Thomas Christian “Lou IV/ Athelene (Superscale/Airfix decals)
1/48 Otaki Fw-190 A-8 Willi Maximovitz ( Superscale decals)
1/48 Monogram Spitfire (Mk.IX) Stanislaw Skalski ( Eduard decals)
The Monogram kit holds [...]
This is a revamped model that I received from a friend and includes FlightPath photoetch parts for the interior. Yet, over time the rotor blades drooped and I left the fragile rotor untouched.
