Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
This cross breed Spitfire model was built in 2011. It is 1/48 Tamiya Spitfire MkVb mated with Fusion DB605 conversion set. This aircraft (Spitfire MkVb serial EN850 / NX-X) flown by P/O Bernard Scheidhauer was captured in Jersey island [...]
I have always liked the Beaufighter for its pugnacious looks. Here are three I did from the Tamiya kit back about 1997-1999.
The first is a T.F.X flown by 27 "Elephants" Squadron in southeast Asia. 27 was the first squadron to [...]
The F-8 Crusader is about as "modern" as I get with jets, and it's my personal favorite "modern" jet. I personally think the Trumpeter Crusader is the best kit of this airplane anyone has done. It is the only one that [...]
And here is the last part of my NMF TuAF jets Trilogy. This is 1/48 Classic Airframes F-5A finished few years ago with Turkish Air Force markings. This ex-Norvegian freedom fighter (5-575) was in use between mid of eighties and nineties [...]
One of the first SB2U-1 kits, with the godawful short-shot fuselages. I wanted to go "Yellow Wings" here but needed to take the viewer's eye away from the filling of the fuselage "canyons", so decided to do a [...]
Another NMF TuAF jet. This is 1/48 Hasegawa TF-104 finished with Turkish Air Force markings. The model is based on the TF-104G ( 61.3028 tail number) from 144 th Squadron at 4 th Air Base in Murted Ankara.
Cockpit modified by using Eduard [...]
An old NMF example from the past. This is 1/48 Hasegawa F-86 E(M) Sabre with Turkish Air Force (TuaF) markings.
Most RCAF Sabre Mk 2 and 4 aircrafts were retrofitted with extended wing leading edges and then sold to foreign air forces. [...]
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Inspired by a recent display of fantastic natural metal finishes at the front page, here is a "spoon test" of four premium metallic finishes available today - Alclad II vs Gunze Mr.Color Super Metallic vs Kosutte Ginsan vs [...]
Hey Guys,
have just taken some more pics of my latest builds,
1/48 Tamiya F-16C Arkansas
This was my first Tamiya F-16, i have 4 of the Tamiya Vipers,
great kit, no doubt the best F-16 Kit out there at the moment, everything is Out Of [...]
Hello,
I want to introduce my model L-29 from HpH kit (full resin kit) in 1/32.
I build it out of the box with many details (rivets, wires, indicators, seats) which I made myself. I painted it with GSI Super Metallic and Tamiya Acrylic [...]
