Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Academy's 1/48 Phantoms represent a good balance between accuracy, details and price. In addition the kit offers a wide range of armament options. The only thing the builder has to cope with are multi colored sprues.
Sorry to be late with this, but here are the completed builds from 2023. I managed seven total, and a couple other started, and hope to finish in the coming year. I was going to post the Spitfire from an earlier article, but, I did only [...]
This is one of those kits that was removed from the infamous, "Shelf of Doom!". Those shelves are like opinions, and everybody's got one...(Among other things...;)
"Shelf of Doom", "Bin of Shame", as model [...]
Good kit, bad decals. I Hope you like It.
I Hope you like. Good Trumpeter kit. Decals and fgs added.
This is Eduard's first Pfalz release and one of my early models, when I didn't use tensioners and made the strings from threads pulled from women's stockings.
Vizefeldwebel Hecht's aircraft of Jasta 10, was forced to land behind British [...]
1/48 Hasegawa Messerschmitt Me109G-6. Htm Franz Dorr, CO of 111/JG5, Gossen, Norway. May 1945.
This one was started years ago when I realised I didn't have the right tail section for the version I was doing. I had a G-14 short tail. [...]
I wanted to do a Hind because I grew up during the Cold War, and I remember seeing these beasts flying through the air on the news or in the movies. Out of all the Soviet weapons, the Hind placed a bit of fear in me then. When I was in [...]
In 2022, the Armor Modelling and Preservation Society (AMPS) held its bi-annual model competition in Georgetown, Texas. In the special categories division, there was a Tank Buster category for fixed and rotary-wing aircraft. I selected [...]
I had my most productive year in 2023 with 9 completed builds.
This was helped by three things:
My club "Gunna Build" competition - 1/48 Tamiya Il-2M3
My club "Build a B#$%#$" competition - 1/48 Testors Lockheed [...]
