Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
I built this kit for a review article for IPMS USA, so can only post a few photos. To see more, and read the build review (tough kit to put together!), visit the review article: (link)
As much of a slog as it was (slowed me down for [...]
My first reaction to the film footage of an SRA-1 in flight can be summarised as: "what an elegant and impressively agile aircraft this flying boat was! This impression surprised me myself, because when one sees this machine in still [...]
By Giannis Asimakos
Kitty Hawk's Mirage 2000 kit in 1/32 was released in 2019 and is the only one in this scale. Opening the very large and heavy box we find 13 light gray plastic frames, one transparent with excellent clarity frame, three [...]
Italeri 1/72 kit.
Elaborated following the maintenance manual drawings.
With the use of rod and evergreen stripes.
2 Engine are elaboration of the Engine of the kit ,one instead is a resin production of the Radial Engine & [...]
Formed by a number of ex-Hasegawa employees, Trimaster was active from 1987 to 1991. During that time the company produced some of the first “mixed-media” kits with photo-etch, metal tubing and white metal parts along with molded [...]
Another pretty French aircraft in my opinion. This is the Hobby Boss 1/48 scale kit, which is labelled as the 'C' model.
After studying dozens (hundreds?) of photos on the web I concluded that it was probably one of the early ones as [...]
Harrier is a special subject to me, because FROG's (produced by NOVO actually) G.R. Mk.I was one of my first plastic kits, if not the very first one. Modern aviation is not my usual subject, but I've made an exclusion for this build.
This [...]
1/48 ICM Bristol Beaufort Mk.1 L9878 No 217 Sqn RAF St Eval, Autumn 1941.
ICM have really done something special with this kit. Mine is OOTB but there is plenty of room for additional detail, especially in the cockpit if you wanted. This [...]
In my collection there is almost nothing about Japanese artifacts, so I decided to build this so much important aircraft of that country, operated during WWII. I chose A6M5C Zero Fighter 1/72 scale from Academy kit, (Naval Pilot Takeo [...]
