Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Here’s my build if the ICM Do-215B-4 in 1:48 I completed a couple of months ago and just got around to getting some photos when the sun finally came out of it’s winter hibernation. A nice kit, but with some minor issues. The [...]
The yellow eye catching undersides of Japanese trainers was an incentive for another Zero. The correct position of the sliding canopy appears to be in the rear cockpit, obviously
With modern military aircraft officially prescribed camouflage schemes vary. The green hues within IDF's "Desert" camouflage scheme is subject to the most changes in color. Color photographs in optimal light conditions are [...]
Bought this kit last December and in between other projects started to put it together. I tried to eschew any aftermarket and just build, needless to say ordered the Eduard canopy mask and found in the stash some Airwaves Luftwaffe PE [...]
A really nice kit except for the decals, they fought me all the way. I think these are at the change-over when Eduard changed the decals to a peal off film.I learned the hard way when I started with the swastikas.They grabbed like [...]
It took a long wait until I found a model without (horrendous) shipping costs. By far, my favorite Monogram model. It just looks grand like the real aircraft.
One that had been on my list to do for a long time but the amount of resin that came with the kit scared me off a bit.
The kit, as we all know, has fit issues but with the help of a number of build threads I was forewarned of the areas of [...]
Although this 2004 kit is boxed as a 1/48th Monogram F-4E Phantom II, the plastic mold is actually the 80s Hasegawa F-4E. I built this aircraft in the markings of 68-0338 which had two MiG kill markings on the splitter plate. The victories [...]
This was a challenging model, mostly because I had so many fit issues. But, this particular Kitty Hawk model's reputation proceeds itself, wow! I went with the VFC-111 Sundowners U.S. Navy version, and free-hand airbrushed the desert [...]
