Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
This has been quite the adventure, and first off I want to thank my good friend Ed for getting this kit for me. I would have to say that overall I thoroughly enjoyed this kit. This is basically two complete airplane kits in two boxes [...]
Another garage sale "gem". The box was crushed, decals shot, but it appeared all the sprues were in it. this kit was molded in the early 80's in England. This took me awhile to build and landed on the shelf of doom more than [...]
I finally finished this old Modelcraft UC-64B Norseman. I started it at least ten years ago but lost interest in it about halfway into the build. I put the uncompleted model in a box along with all the parts and instructions and slid that [...]
After the failure of Operation Calendar on April 14-19, 1942, the matter of refilling fighter planes in Malta became a priority. The operation began on April 29, 1942 and was better prepared this time to avoid immediate destruction of the [...]
Hello, after a long time I built another 'What If' model. It is an Avro Lancaster B Mk.I 1:48 by HKModel.
This aircraft was put into service at Bomber Command in late 1943 and coincidentally, its first mission was a raid on Berlin.
The [...]
I have developed a real appreciation of 1930s aircraft. Big open cowls and wheel pants. I don't know, they just look co cool. Finemolds has one version of their Babs as a civilian record setter known as 'Kamikaze' - which at the time of [...]
Ilyushin Il-2 is well known ground attack plane from WWII. Some would say that it’s role for victory over the Germans on the Eastern Front was very important. Similar to Ju 87 in its roll it wreck havoc against enemy tanks. Il2 was [...]
Greetings all,
Time for another update on my long-term 1/32nd scale Short Sunderland project.
Since I last updated you there's been plenty of progress. All painting has now been completed, using my trusted Xtracolor enamels. Uppers were [...]
Same rules as the Airfix starter set challenge: Use only whats in the box, plus a knife for cutting off the sprue and a sandpaper stick.
Video will be live on my Youtube channel Monday!
The Airplane:
Late in 1940, the RAF believed the appearance of the pressurized Junkers Ju 86P over Britain would signal the start of a high altitude bombing offensive by the Luftwaffe. The Air Ministry called for development of a [...]
