Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
1/32nd Williams Brothers kit of the Gee Bee. Built many years ago. Painted by "rattle can".
Scallops were laid out with homemade stencils. Pinstripes were done using a french curve & draftsman's pen.
Typical WB kit. Bit of a [...]
Here is my recently finished model. This is 1/48 Hasegawa Hawker Typhoon Mk.Ib finished with the markings of RAF No.198 Squadron.
Cockpit modified with some parts of CMK set and a seat from Ultracast .
Painting was done with Gunze Sangyo [...]
Built basically OOB from the Williams Bothers kit in 1/72. I wanted a different aircraft than the supplied decals so registration markings were pieced together by cutting up the kit decals and the outline of the United States hand painted [...]
Well I finally finished my first build of 2013...It took a while but got'er done. Pretty much built straight from the box except I used SuperScale decals. This one will be a great addition to my Jolly Rogers collection...of course its the [...]
My newest completed bird : The Heinkel HE 111 H-22 converted into a gunship.
This one was also built out of the box, and with no aftermarket parts. The gunpod was scratch-built, and the decals are from various other kits. This was [...]
I built this one sometime mid last year. This offering is the Revell Dornier Do 335 Pfeil. I modeled this one as an A-5 variant, which was a single-seat nightfighter. This was built Out Of The Box, and I did not use aftermarket parts. Just [...]
Fabric wing model 1/32 scale. To me the early Hurricanes are the best looking-that pointy nose just does it. The Pacific Coast kit is pretty good, the only big issue being poor wing fit. It has a real good interior, nice surface detail and [...]
A wine observation our son Jonathan of my wife gave a jigsaw puzzle with a Spitfire pictured, my wife put together the puzzle and it was a nice picturewith a Spitfire Mk.V and two Hawker Typhoon over the beach of France on D-day, June 6 [...]
1:15 Scale. Model Engineering. One-Off Aluminum Model. Truly Scratch-Built.
The custom metal models built by Guillermo Rojas Bazán are considered the best in the world in their category by several institutions of wide international [...]
As I recall, the Astrokit resin C.200s first appeared in 1995. I did this one then, then about 5 years later I stripped it and repainted it with better decals. This is a C.200 from the 356th Squadriglia of the Italian Corpo [...]