Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Hey guys,
Very excited to share my second build with you all. I know, yet another Schmitt ha hah.
This has been a fun project with some challenging firsts...first time adding riveting detail using a rotary riveting tool, first time [...]
This one...good looking? yes. Trouble to put together? yes. for something that looks so simple it was a real headache to assemble. So glad it is paper. tempted quite a few times to ball it up and try for a 3-point hoop. seeing that I can [...]
Did one of these awhile back and wanted to do another. All I could find was the version with the Top Gun decals which I refused to use so I got some Carcal AM...more on that in a bit.
Cockpit on the last one was blah at best so some AM was [...]
Well, actually the second. The original designation was I (Istrebeitel, fighter) 200, but a new convention using the designer's names was introduced, these being Migoyan and Gurevitch, hence, MiG. The new moniker was MiG-1, but the [...]
Although not the definitive model representing the Bf-109G-6, Revell's Messerschmitt is a good representation of the aircraft at the 1/32nd scale. The build is not complicated and the end result looks much like the real aircraft.
I used [...]
This is my most recent build and my first post to this site. I think my skills have improved greatly thanks to my local IPMS chapter. I don't think any of my previous airplanes were good enough to show so I am proud of this build. I hope [...]
When I was doing this model, I forgot to add nose weight and then underestimated how much nose weight needed! The second thing that stood out was the size of the model. it is HUGE! It was one of the more unusual models I liked to build. [...]
1/48 Kinetic E-2C Hawkeye 2000 (K48016)
See all my models at: (link)
Photography:
Nikon D7500; Focus Stacking using Helicon Focus; Editing using LightRoom
Paint:
Exterior Light Gull Grey: FS16440 - AK Interactive RC220
Interior Dark [...]
Revell kit. Added Eduard "Zoom" set and used DK decals and Tamiya Acrylic paints. I also used mask sets for the clear parts (Eduard) and the camouflage (AML). A fairly straightforward and easy build with the exception of some [...]
