Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Since the Spitfire XIV was such a success, here come some more 1/32 Griffon Spitfires.
First up, the Revell Spitfire 24. Out of the box, this kit lacks all sorts of things: accurate cowling, accurate prop, acurate canopy, accurate [...]
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A video tutorial on how to bring back the old, yellowed decal sheet to full glory. By BasicModelling.
The Pacific Coast Models Spitfire XIV. The only accurate Spitfire XIV model currently available.
Squadron leader's airplane, 610 squadron, May 1944. Kit decals.
The kit has been re-released by Kitlinx, which now (2020) owns the PCM line.
After seeing all the Wildcats with the beautiful medium blue over gray. I thought I would post pictures of my Grumman Duck. I finished it earlier this year. It was my first biplane, but I got the bug and wanted to finish a model with [...]
1/48 Hobbycraft kit finished with SNJ spray metal and Experts Choice decals. To my knowledge, this kit was only released once in the late '80s. I finally built this example in 2009.
I've built about 40-45 1/48 model aircraft over the last 25 years (yes, I am the world's slowest builder, lol) but this Wildcat was my first Tamiya kit. I finished it last year and I have to say that all I had heard about its ease of [...]
This is the older Nichimo kit, built largely OOB with Aeromaster decals (Imperial Defenders)
I chose the allover Army green machine over the more conventional Grey and green blotch as it gives the aircraft a very different look.
The [...]
Mostly OOB, I added the fuel tank under the cockpit floor. You can't really see it unless you look through the windows on the lower fuselage, but I know it is there...lol.
Paint is Mr. Color, and floquil. Decals by superscale.
Thanks,
Rob
Here is another old build, this time a 1/32 Hasegawa Ki-84.
The old 70s-vintage Heller F-84G Thunderjet in 1/72 was converted to represent the prototype XP-84 by cutting the wingtip tanks off and making new tips with styrene sheet, removing the canopy framing and smoothing out/polishing the canopy, [...]
