Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II was introduced in 1962 as a high-speed, long-range interceptor for defense against Soviet bombers. Thankfully, this role never needed filling and instead the twin-engine F-4 went to Vietnam as a [...]
This is 1/32 Spitfire Mk.XII with the markings of EB-B MB882 from No.41 sqn RAF Tangmere, Sussex England in October 1943
The base kit is Hasegawa Spitfire MkVb. I have used Paragon Spitfire Mk.XII conversion set with Warbird universal [...]
Hi ya, Finished the excellent Eduard fw190a-6. I picked the plane that was flown by Gunther josten. Jostens aircraft was darkened on the fuselage sides with the same paints applied to the upper surfaces and the yellow recognition markings, [...]
On September 22, 1943, John T. Godfrey, the youngest of three brothers born in Canada to English parents, then raised in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, achieved his dream of being a fighter pilot when he arrived at Debden. Having been arrested [...]
Friend of mine's Grandfather was S/Ldr. W A J Satchell ((link)).
He gave me access to the log books for which I am extremely grateful and he has given me permission to share them here.
I have built two Hurricanes for him. One - WX-L- [...]
This is the latest model kit issued by Army Hobby in 1/72 scale (most of their kits are in this scale, but I'm still waiting for the promised Hurricane in 1/48). I built some of their first plastic kits (PZL P.7), and a later Wildcat along [...]
72nd scale revolution or not, New Arma Hobby kits are simply amazing, I bought kits at 20% discount price and they worth every cent.
Brand New 1/72 P-39Q Aircobra and P-51B Mustang.
DISCLAIMER:
I am NOT! being paid to promote this kits and [...]
Another gift for my dad... harking back to his gliding days in South Australia in the 1950's. He declared this his favourite aeroplane ever, and he even managed to get his "Silver C" in this aircraft: 5 hours aloft. This was back [...]
Finally managed to finish my first ever Fw190... can't quite believe it's taken me so long to build one. Anyway, here she be: possibly not great, as I had a few issues with the paint finish, but I'm generally pretty happy with it. Finished [...]
This is a 1/72 MPC C-47... although the box describes it as a DC-3. This is originally an Airfix release kit and had a “Made in England” slip of paper in the bag with the parts .
The fit of the parts was generally good, and there was [...]
