Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
1/48 RAF DeHavilland Mosquito NF Mk.XIII
See all my models at: (link)
Photograpy:
Nikon D7500; Focus Stacking using Helicon Focus; Editing using LightRoom
Kit:
Tamiya No. 75
Accessories:
Ultracast resin seats (48033)
Ultracast resin tail [...]
In the never ending search for the elusive realistic and at the same time artistic weathering effects for model airplanes I subjected a FW 190 D from Tamiya to some refined techniques.
I went for the RLM 76 Lichtblau - RLM 82 Hellgruen - [...]
Bill Bosworth's latest:
Curtiss A-8 Shrike - 1/32 vacuform scratchbuilt.
We're not worthy! We're not worthy! 🙂
So just about eight weeks on this one, everything you see (except the roundels & side number) is straight from the Eduard box, no after-market used at all.
Paint is all acrylic and all mixed 'until it looks about right'. And therein [...]
A friend of mine was given two old kits , he asked me to build them for him. One was a 1/72 Revell SR-71 with a drone mounted on top...
the other was an AMT/Ertl 1/72 XB-35 flying wing...
The SR-71 was simple to build. If it had been [...]
Here is my Shackleton built pretty much out of the box but I added screen wipers and detailed the cockpit.
An unusual scale for me although it is still quite a large kit when finished.
The model was finished with Tamiya XF's and, as I [...]
2nd kit of 2023- first time building an Eduard kit.
Overall it was a mixed experience, detail was amazing inside and out but definitely a level of "fiddliness" that was frustrating.
Some self inflicted wounds along the way as [...]
Another old build that I decided to do a little work to. This was originally finished as a factory fresh build since the markings are from the second prototype of the Ki-84. This is an Otaki kit that was first released in 1973. Not too [...]
Here is a model of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign aircraft. I would like to stress that this is a model and not in any way to be seen as a political statement. I just really liked the markings and that big American flag on the tail. When [...]
