Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
I've always had a soft spot for the Westland Whirlwind: whether it's because of the unusual design with its high set tail, or just reading about it in various aircraft recognition books, I don't know. My modelling experience with the type [...]
New Year, New Build
My first go at a Dora Wings kit. It has it's pros and cons. Cons: Excessive sprue attachments and flash. Lots of test fitting. Had to grind down a few parts to get proper fit. Instructions were not great to say the [...]
The Douglas TBD-1 Devastator was the US Navy’s premier torpedo bomber when hostilities broke out on December 7th 1941. Six months later it was completely obsolete and removed from combat operations. The subject of my build is from the [...]
Hello fellow modelers! How ironic that I got back into modeling in 2020 during COVID to keep my sanity and I'm now wrestling with my 3rd round of COVID as I finished this build. Such is the world we now live in. But sick time and holiday [...]
Greetings all - and all the best for coming year.
Here's my first completion of 2024 which nearly made 2023 but the cold, wet weather was against me for the final varnish coat! The Airfix 1/24th Hellcat is well known and documented so I'll [...]
My favorite Tamiya jet kit.
The origins of the Tu-22M can be traced back in 1962, when its ancestor, the Tu-22 “Blinder”, by that time introduced in service, was found to be a handful to fly and, especially, to land, let alone it had serviceability issues. [...]
I do apologize for not posted in a while, this has been due to life and work getting in the way, here are a few pictures of one of my latest scratch builds that took me a full year to complete.
This is the Rooivalk Attack Helicopter [...]
Wanted to see if I could build something over a long weekend, we’ll see! 😃
The first model this year was a very pleasant relaxing build to be of greater problems. I can only recommend it for lovers of the great war planes who don't like strings.
Although the Fokker E.V, better known as the D.VIII, still remains [...]
