Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Hi everybody,
I don’t know how to start this article. My first thought was to write: ‘don't yell on the damn intercom!’ (famous sentence from Capt. Bob Morgan), But no Let’s first present my happy new year to you modelers.
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This model represents the mount of Flt. Lt. Stanley George Scrimgeour (known as George) of 457 Sqn on 20th June 1945. By the time the Mk. VIII entered service with the RAAF in early 1944, the IJNAF and IJAAF were spent forces in the [...]
I just ran across this model, which I built 12 years ago. I've rephotographed it for this article.
When the North American Sabre flew in 1947, it attracted attention throughout the West’s aviation industry. In 1948, the Royal Canadian [...]
Here is another of my Spitfire PR Types. It is a PR.VII, a PR.IG which was upgraded to Mk. V specs. The PR.VII/PR.IG was armed with 8 X .303 Browning machine guns and retained its armor. It was thought the PR.VII/PR.IG would be able to [...]
First completed build of 2023 is a 1/48 Monogram SNJ-6 Navy trainer.
1950's markings from NAS Memphis.
Overall the kit went together well and was fun to build. I built the kit out of the box with Caracal decals which were excellent. [...]
2nd Model in a month after 10 years away and did a 2nd Hurricane! The weather has not been kind to my other activities, even here in California. This time the 1/48 Hasegawa IIC converted to a PR IIc Trop. Not much too it other than adding [...]
Overall, a straightforward enjoyable build with some pro's and con's. The pro's are accurate shape, reasonable parts count, good level of detail on most sections, good fit, lots of decal choices, detailed cockpit and engine, and separate [...]
Well 2022 was not a record year for me, I didn't even manage to build my usual four kits, but only managed to pump out three. I would like to build more, but I am not too disappointed with my production really since two of the three were [...]
Happy New Year everyone. This model was built for the Hawker 100th group. It was built using the 1/48 Airfix Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 kit that was released in 2018. It depicts an Australian Sea Fury FB.11 from 724 Squadron of the Royal [...]
The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was a primary fighter-bomber and ground attack aircraft during WWII. Produced between 1941 and 1945, it made use of the newly-developed turbosupercharger engine which gave it good high-altitude performance. [...]
