Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
As an assembly ship in the 458th Bombardment Group in the Eighth, Spotted A*s Ape flew more than 60 missions, assembling her group’s aircraft. It had its guns removed and formation lights in the letter “I” on her flanks and the red [...]
I completed this 1/72 Japanese fighter today, after four days of work. It is part of the #TonyTonyTony group build on the Bluesky #HistScaleModel group, and is my first group build. It's a straight out of the box build of the 2018 Tamiya [...]
The Mitsubishi J8M1 Shusui (Sharp Sword) was a reverse-engineered copy of the Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet. It was built as a rare cooperative project between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Army, the Army version was designated Ki-200. [...]
Border's Kate is probably the first mold with stressed skin surface. It may seem exaugurated to some. Yet, the simulated metal corrugations and fabric indentations can be mitigated with proper painting and even without sanding and [...]
Just a few days before Christmas , 2024, a package arrived in the mail from my friend, Liliya. She had sent gifts for everyone in my family. My wife was given a cool set of nesting dolls, mine was this new release Zvezda kit that Liliya [...]
Hi everynoe,
Here is my IAF, F-4E, Phantom II in 1/48 by Meng.
An excellent kit with close to perfect fit and very good details.
Highly recomended.
The model depicts an aircraft flown by Oberleutnant Helmut Wick, 1/Jagdgeschwader 2 "Richthofen" in France and Belgium, October 1940. By that time, the light blue camouflage on the sides of the fuselage was pained over in the [...]
Hobbycraft introduced their 1/48th CF-100 Mk.V in 1989 followed by their 1/48th CF-100 Mk.IV in 1990. Hobbycraft specialty was releasing Canadian aircraft types that no other manufacturer would produce in an injection mold kit. While the [...]
Ready for sharing is this Hasegawa 1/48 McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II Plus. The aircraft represents the lead ship of VMA-513 from around 2010. The loadout I've depicted may or may not be correct, but this is the way I wanted to depict [...]
1/72 Italeri, built 04-2023 to 05-2024 for the Italian air force 100th GB, more pic's, details there.
