Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
This is my 1:48 Sword Lightning T.4 that I recently completed. 92 Sqn. based at Gutersloh Germany. A nice kit to that needs to be built with care. Not a throw it together kit by any means, but I was able to make something that sits [...]
“Metamorphosis” is the beautiful word to describe a far-reaching transformation or complex redesign. Why am I writing this here? On closer examination of the eventful history of the Boeing 307 Stratoliner, I came up with this term: it [...]
Third time's the charm.
I started on a model of a B-25 Mitchell medium bomber - the plane used by the Doolittle Raiders in April 1942 - over 30 years ago, but never finished it. While at King's Hobby in Austin in the summer of 2015, I [...]
The aircraft depicted in this build is the Nieuport 16C serial No. A134 as allocated to Capt. Albert Ball VC.
Ball rigged the aircraft to fly tail heavy so that it would fly "hand off" whilst he reloaded the Lewis gun, he also [...]
Although not a gem kit, the build is not complicated and the final result is very pleasing. (Bomb got loose during the photo session.)
The origins of the “G” version of the Starfighter can be traced back in 1957, when the German Air Staff issued a Paper asking for a single aircraft to fulfill its fighter, fighter-bomber and reconnaissance mission requirements. Towards [...]
This is my second of three Avenger posts.
The TBM variants of the Avenger were manufactured by the Eastern Division of General Motors during WWII. One of the external differences from the TBF (built by Grumman) was that the TBM had a [...]
My second Moskito was painted according to a more sophisticated scheme I came across in the few remaining photographs of the existing prototypes.
As the custom decals I ordered arrived I was able to complete several unfinished models and this is the second one of them. The model was inspired by Spiros' (@fiveten) superb PM models Fokker D.XXI last year. It's a plane that has a [...]
Hello,
First model finished in 2025. No particular problem
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