Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
I saw this Airfix kit at the hobby shop and noticed it had South African Airforce markings, I couldn't pass up the opportunity.
This is the first time I've used an airbrush, the first model I've weathered with oils and my first 1/72 [...]
Its been a while since I have posted, been a little busy with work and Family.
This project has been a labour of love for me, and I have, once again, learned a lot, cussed a lot, sanded and shaped a lot and scratched my head .
Firstly, [...]
The Starfix BF109 E cough cough in 1/48th scale cough cough - Its not a 109 E, and its 1/55th scale! Join in to watch this strange kit take form.
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Here´s one of my dad´s rare excursions to the more modern world.
Hobby Boss Su-17M4 kit with Model Maker Decals. Only used the nose numbers and the airintake decals from this sheet, the national insignias were too large, at least for the [...]
It's big, it doesn't fit into my display case. It's another US airplane. It's another dull, boring grey model. It's well aged... But it's Tomcat...you can't have a model collection without Tomcat!
Few years back a bought an open [...]
Hi peoples, I have returned! Since my last upload, I have had a lot of time to build and practice new techniques and I have produced this. I have been wanting a "do-over" of a UH-1 because I felt that I could do better than what [...]
A good question, but a subjective one. One could say it is a pre-prepared die cast, where one would simply screw two halves of some already finished sub-pieces together. The next stage might be a snap-tight model, where the pieces just [...]
I don't really like working in 1/72, but a friend of mine requested I build one for his veteran father who worked as an armorer on B-52's on Guam during the Vietnam War. He mentioned that there was always at least two Blackbirds on [...]
Most enjoyable build of the Tamiya F-4B depicting an aircraft of VF-111 Sundowners when on March 6,1972 destroyed a Mig-17 north of Quang Lang airfield. Pilot and radar intercept officer at that time were Lt.Gary Weigand and Lt.Bill [...]
