Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Hi guys. This is my last job. A Bronco kit Mig-15 1/48. Good model with some additions of fgs and decals from Eduard gains in quality. Good fit and detail, but very faint rivets and few decals. I hope you like It.
The Airplane:
Unlike the Gloster Meteor - which was always intended to be an operational fighter - the deHavilland Vampire began as an experimental aircraft, originally developed to specification E6/41, to test the deHavilland Halford H.1 [...]
I built this back in the fall of 2020, but didn't do a decent photo shoot until this past month. It was an enjoyable project, OOB except for some PE seat belts from Eduard.
The paint job was complex. Not only are there five upper surface [...]
Here is my 1/32 GWH Curtiss Hawk 81 with the markings of Flying Tigers AVG from 1st Pursuit.
Built by OOB except for the Eduard seat belts, Barracudacast main wheels and Cutting Edge national insignias
Paints are Gunze acrylics.
Happy [...]
Not sure if this has happened to anyone else, but I genuinely forgot that I had this kit until it 'appeared' during a stash tidying session... happy, happy modeller !
Everything you see here comes from the Profipack box with the exception [...]
Here is a quickie of my recent build of an Atlantis release of the old Revell Box Scale F-89D Scorpion complete with 1960s instructions, raised lettering and national insignia as well as generic paint scheme based on Insignia Red.
I didn't [...]
After completing Lt Richard W. Lander's P-40F, who was assigned to the 315th FS, 324th FG, I was asked if I could also build a P-47 he flew. His Group went from N Africa to Italy then on to Southern France where their P-40F's were replaced [...]
Part two of the Mossie double build, the Tamiya Mk.VI.
Not as happy with this one as i was with the 72md airfix kit, i think i over extended myself by stepping out of my comfort zone with oils. It was a learning curve, but not as good as [...]
Hasegawa 1/48 Mitsubishi J2M3 Raiden
Technical Air Intelligence Units (TAIU) were joint Allied military intelligence units formed during World War II to recover Japanese aircraft to obtain data regarding their technical and tactical [...]
Two models, one aircraft!
The idea of depicting one and the same aircraft in two different paint schemes, which the aircraft wore at different times, can be an attractive undertaking in itself from a modelling point of view. However, [...]