Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
My first Thunderbolt build. Great kit as has been described by multiple modelers.
Aftermarket Master Model detail set.. gun barrels, pitot, and gun sight. EagleCal decals. Paint: Tamiya XF and Vallejo metals.
Everything was going well [...]
Here is my completed entry for the Jim Sullivan Memorial Build.
This is Tamiya's 1974 boxing of their first release of the Brewster Buffalo, Kit No. 61019. There are 3 versions that can be made, RAF, Dutch and USN.
This is a nice kit, all [...]
This is the my completed build of the Italeri 1/48 kit, which was intended to be completed OOB as a little light relief from my ongoing struggle with the MPM He 177. It's a strange kit, quite crude and toy like in places with clumsily [...]
Sometimes in our modeling journey we get involved with builds we had no intention of building but are glad we did. This was one such build for me.
My co-worker, Phil, who was a F-111 munitions maintenance ground crewman, based at Nellis [...]
Hi Everyone
Here are a selection of aircraft models that took my interest at the 2023 NSW Scale Model Show that was on last weekend. Great weekend for all and much modelling inspiration for next year!
Back in late 2018 I posted a new decal maker in the market: (link)
I like these decals so much that I already purchased 4 sheets and as a consequence several of my 190 articles here use them.
This one is from that first sheet…5 years [...]
This is recently re-issued 8227 ProfiPack with a well-known Hellcat in this scale. I wanted to try new Eduard aftermarket offerings, so I've added 3D printed wheel bays and bronze legs. It's nice additions to the quite old kit, especially [...]
To make the TV-2[T-33] carrier suitable, Lockheed added an elevated instructor's seat,strenghened undercarriage, tail hook and catapult hookup and leading-edge flaps were improvements made to what became known as the T2V-1[T-1A] Seastar. [...]
The Base
Edwards AFB was originally established by Lt Colonel Hap Arnold in 1933 as the Muroc Bombing and Gunnery Range. Based on Muroc Dry Lake and described to be 'level as a billiard table', it became the ideal place for gunnery and [...]
1/72 Tamiya, Brengun conversion, built 2021 for the de Havilland 100 GB, more pic's and details there, some pic's of the subject being restored, taken at different airshows at RAAF Richmond.
