Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
The B5N "Kate" was designed by a team led by Katsuji Nakamura in response to a 1935 specification by the Navy for a torpedo bomber to replace the Yokosuka B4Y. The first prototype flew in January 1937 and was ordered into [...]
1/72 Special Hobby, I started working on this in 2007, off and on till finishing in early 2021.
This was one of two display aircraft, The other being WH 588, 114.
I modified a few things along the way, brass wire and tube for the prop', [...]
This is my recently completed TanModel RF-84 Thunderflash in 48th scale. Decent kit overall but there are a few fit issues that crept up in various places including the landing gear and windscreen / canopy fit.
I used Rub n Buff silver wax [...]
The kit was painted with Tamiya XF's and weathered with pastels and enhanced with an Eduard pe set. I couldn't get the kits rigging to work and so I used stainless steel wire instead...
After the Cuban T-33, my dad continues with the Latin American subjects.
Airfix Canadair F4 kit with Aztec decals. The white weapons block on the left nose side isn´t provided by Aztec, made a rectangle with decal stripes. Also the nose [...]
While working on the T-34 Mentor, I took some pictures of a new addition to the hanger, a Cessna Bird Dog. The paint scheme is fictional, but the owner has a thing for yellow so he painted it in an Air Force paint scheme replacing yellow [...]
I took a break from building models to spend some time building the real thing. I worked on the restoration of an incredible gentleman's Grumman/McKinnon G-21 Goose. That ten year long project completed he is now working on a Beech Craft [...]
Spielwarenmesse 2023 - Nürnberg
...just a a fraction of nice stands @ Spielwarenmesse 2023
Many new and unreleased scale kits from:
Tamiya Scale/RC kits
Revell scale kits
Italeri scale kits
Scale75 figures
AK interactive
Art Scale - [...]
