Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Definitely not the easiest model to put together but despite the time needed to fix them, the build issues are manageable. I had a lot of fun painting this one. All the markings are painted except the tail numbers because I could not get [...]
Since I restarted modeling in retirement this is my 25 model. It is the first one I reached total frustration with and am embarrassed about the result. I came close to junking it in the trash.
This model had the worst fits and required [...]
Many countries that had the Mig 21 variants provided a vast array of camouflage schemes. I chose the Nigerian Air Force scheme to adorn Eduard's excellent kit.
This is the old Frog kit (F241), first released In 1973. The model I built was boxed by Ark Models. I actually started this near the end of 2023 but stopped when I was working on other builds at the time. After my recent Matchbox B-17 [...]
Hi all,
This is the 1:32nd scale Thulin K from Bjorn Carlson of 'Flying Bear.
The model represents Thulin Type K, Serial D-3 of the Marine Luchtvaart Dienst (Dutch Naval Aviation Service) 1918.
This aircraft was designed by Enoch Leonard [...]
Walter John Lawson, nicknamed Jack, was born in January 1913 in Taunton, Somerset, United Kingdom. The Son of a British Army Officer and his wife, Lawson Attended Hastings Grammar School. In January 1929, he joined the Royal Air Force [...]
A model depicting the mount of Martin Drewes, Kommandeur of III./NJG 1. It was a totally personalized aircraft, to help the pilot to improve his chances against an ever varying and growing Allied air offensive.
Drewes aircraft had [...]
This is the 2014 kit from Airfix. Not a bad kit but with some fit issues.
Everything that could go wrong, went wrong with this build. I had a set of Techmod decals depicting a Vb with the desert scheme without the Volkes filter. Very [...]
Got something finished! The weather finally moderated enough to get some painting done. I have 6 armor models fully built and ready for paint, but this one jumped the line. Not too much 'splaining why I built this one, always liked this [...]
Bristol-138A 1/72 Огонек / FROG
