Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
The DHC-1 Chipmunk has often been referred to as "the poor man's Spitfire". I've painted this one in civil registration for an aircraft in Malaysia in the early 1970s that my dad used to fly, and have been racing to complete it [...]
I built this old Matchbox 1/72 A-7D OOB except for the decals because I was annoyed with working with uncooperative resin and PE pieces as well as stubborn paint jobs that weren't going anywhere. Also wanted to practice working on SEA [...]
Pan Am had a fleet of more than 30 L-049s and L-749s, it also leased a few of these L-1049s from Eastern Airlines
This has been lying in it's box incomplete for 2 years, but has finally been completed.
Primed with Tamiya Neutral Grey
Painted with Tamiya Flat Aluminium, Light Grey Nato Black and Flat White.
Citadel Nuln Oil and Seraphim Sepia [...]
This is the tried and true Tamiya kit from 1996. I spotted it on a vendor’s table at the Butch O’Hare IPMS show in Illinois last month. For $15, I couldn’t pass it by. I figured it would be a worthy kit to finally use some of my [...]
SA-2 Gudeline or a Thud drivers worse nightmare. A few years ago I found this rare kit by chance in an old hobby shop called Dave's that since has closed. It's straight out of the box, I added a windshield using clear package material. The [...]
Not my best work, I could have done the wing and tail boots, it was just so small.
This model kit is a curious blend of really nice and rather awful. Fit in some areas was pretty bad, requiring a goodish amount of filler and sanding. The cockpit detail is very weak, hence closed canopy and the molding is somwhat soft. [...]
Hi all, I just completed my second aircraft after taking a multi-decade break from the hobby. I'd like to share some photos of the finished model and impressions of the kit.
The Italeri kit is made of black styrene with 41 parts. [...]
The first trans-oceanic landplane after WWII.
