Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
tamiya 1/48 F4U-1D...techmod decals
This aircraft depicts "City of Sherman" Piloted by Lt. Paul H. Phillips of Sherman Texas, my home town. "City of Sherman" was with the 323BG/456BS. The kit was built straight from the box except True Detail wheels and [...]
as mentioned in my P-47 article here is the P-51D with same name..This one was kind of unusual. It has 2 VHF antanaes on the top behind the canopy and one on the bottom just forward of the main gear. I also saw a color profile of this [...]
This kit is the Tamiya P-47D Bubble Top. Built straight out of the box, except Super Scale decals. True story, thats real funny. The reason I chose to do this aircraft is my mother-in-law. She is a sweet lady, I love her to death. She is a [...]
Since shark week continues here is my contribution. Since Tom Cleaver did an outstanding job explaining the details behind the K model I'll refer readers to his contribution. This is the old AMT kit to which I added some True Detail [...]
The P-40K was a development from the P-40E, which continued use of the Allison V-1710 engine and appeared simultaneously with the P-40F, which used the Packard Merlin. The P-40K used the more powerful Allison V-1710-73 (F4R) engine, with [...]
Hasegawa P-40M. 1/48 scale. I think this is one of the meaner looking mouths. 112 Squadron, Italy 1943.Resin seat and wheels added. Pilot from old Tamiya Buffalo kit.
By the summer of 1942, the Japanese threat to Australia by direct invasion was largely over, but the threat posed by the Japanese takeover of New Guinea meant that Australia could still be isolated strategically, and later invaded. Two [...]
I-180 - on such machines might have come across Luftwaffe Russian pilots in 1941. If it were not a tragic set of circumstances such as the death of several test pilots, including Valery Chkalov. I-180 is a deep modernization of I-16, and [...]
Messerschmitt Bf 109 F-4 flown by Oberleutnant Josef Priller (Staffelkapitän)
/ JG 26, November 1941.
The model is a Hasegawa - Kit 1:32, all red lines are been sprayed gun with the airbrush - also the marks on the fin.The straps are [...]