Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Like most of you out there I have always been fascinated and inspired by the exploits of the American Volunteer Group in China, The Fabled Flying Tigers. Their exploits have been immortalized in books and film and their impact was felt for [...]
I started this build probably near the end of 1989, the year this kit was released. I got as far as airbrushing the Sky Type S paint on to it but stopped and left it on my shelf. As time went by the box and the rest of the parts for this [...]
My article focuses on the unique skeletal model of the SR-71A Blackbird at 1/144 scale, produced by Jasmine Model in China. It contains 120 photo-etched parts and a few pieces of aluminum painted resin bits. The kit is well engineered with [...]
1/48 scale kit by Eduard.
I finished the Profipak version of the kit almost exclusively with the configuration in the box.
The Profi-Pak version kit has all the necessary parts such as etched parts and masking stickers, which is a good [...]
Hi everyone!
This is my Trumpeter 1/32 Sukhoi Su-27B, finished as “Blue 24”, Poland, 1992.
The Sukhoi Su-27 ‘Flanker’ is a Soviet-origin twin-engine supermaneuverable fighter aircraft, intended as a direct competitor for the large [...]
This build is again for my friend who is re-newing the lost collection of his father. Therefore it was done right out of the box with minimum weathering and no changes.
I do not like german WW2 aircrafts much and this particularly one is [...]
The old but gold kit depicting one of the aircraft flown by Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin. He scored 48 victories while flying P-39's including this one. Bio here...(link) Can't say enough about the fit of the aircraft, a bit of filler [...]
Hi All,
My latest post is my build from the, Korea: The Forgotten War, group build.
Thank you to Louis Gardner for setting up the Korea group.
Thank you to Spiros Pendedekas for letting me build the Griffon engine in the Aeroengines group [...]
This kit sat in my bagged kits box and every time I picked it up I thought to myself that I must build it. Well I did. The kit is the Heller Hurricane issued by SMER and includes a small photo-etch (PE) fret. Every time I tried to use [...]
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This is my offering of Roden's 1/32 scale Fokker F.1 triplane, finished as a Dr.I production variant.
The kit is good but with some challenging areas, especially the attachment of the lower wing. I would recommend detaching the [...]
