Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
I used the Tamiya kit to represent an FG-1D Corsair flown by LTC Donald K. Yost of VMF-351 aboard the USS Cape Gloucester, July-August, 1945. It's my contribution to the Jim Sullivan Group Build initiated by Louis Gardner, so thanks Louis [...]
Hellcat, everybody loves it, everybody has one so... I got me one. I saw many examples of this extraordinary fighter plane and many with the fuselage open to see the interior and I was encouraged to do it this way.
I decided to work on the [...]
This is a speculative scheme from trying to interpret old B&W photos but with additional oral information from surviving pilots.
WNW 1:32 .
Tamiya paints and printing ink
Aviattic 4 colour lozenge with clear brown glaze
Gaspatch and [...]
The most handsome jet š
Special Hobby's Mirage 3C in 1/72.
Another quick and fun project to build - the model is very accurate, very detailed and with wide variety of armaments. The decals are too thin, in my opinion, and tend to tear [...]
Introduction
Few aircraft have been wrongly saddled with a bad reputation as the Bell P-39 was. The USAAC hamstrung the airplane when it removed the turbocharger and clipped the wings. Then it sent poorly trained pilots to fight at [...]
One of my favourite paint schemes here in the 56thFG 62nd FS P47 D-22 LM*A bar Flown by Albert Knafelz I have always wanted to try and paint this but as Iām not a modeller in the true sense Iām more an 8th Airforce enthusiast and [...]
A gem by Hasegawa sporting IDF color scheme. Decals by Isradecal.
1/72 AVI models, built in 2021 for the DH 100 GB, more pic's and details there.
So in May we had the 80th anniversary of the Dams Raid. I have been preparing for this construction for some time, but I decided to start work around the anniversary of the event. The 1:72 scale Airfix Avro Lancaster model is well known to [...]
Hello everyone. I'm back after a while for this new model. Again it is a Corsair but with markings and paint used by the British in the Pacific theater.
The original kit is from Trumpeter which comes with good details and gave almost no [...]
