iModeler Aviation
Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Aeronautique Navale...1/48 Lockheed PV-1 Ventura, French Navy
And my dad´s next model is finished. Wanted to avoid one of the usual blue schemes so we chose a French one in an atlantic scheme.
Revell USA kit with Berna decals. Painted with Tamiya XF-2 White and Gunze H317 FS36231.
Build thread [...]
Kinetic 1/48 IA 58 Pucara
The full review, as published last week at Modeling Madness, with many many more pix here:
The Airplane:
The FMA IA 58 Pucará - the name is from the Quechua language, meaning “Fortress,” referring to a form of South American stone [...]
F-16 Block50 Plus, Turkish Air Force, 181 Filo, Kinetic 1/72.
The only positive note about Covid: a lot of time for modelling! Shortly after the F-14A of the VF-84, here I'm with another project just completed for a collector and friend of mine. First of all, I have to mention that there are no [...]
Fw-190A8/R8 6/JG 300
In the closing months of WWII the U.S. 8th air force were routinely mounting one thousand bomber raids on Germany with 700 or 800 fighter escort. 6/JG300 was on of the "assault fighter" units tasked with intercepting these [...]
Hasegawa N1K2-J ‘George’, 1/48. The Violet Lightning.
Seeing certain aircraft sometimes brings back a memory, for me the N1K2 reminds me of playing Combat Flight Simulator 2 when I was 8 years old, I always thought of it as the 'fat Japanese plane with the big guns and the cool cockpit'. [...]
Modeler & Writer
Hello fellow modelers. I am a former AF Crew Chief (A-10/F-16) that now writes Military Aviation Books, which have covered the P-61 Black Widow and Night Fighters, Vietnam and currently I am working on the F-101 Voodoo. I enjoy modeling [...]
End of an Era...1/48 Nieuport 17, Imperial Russian Air Service
One of my dad´s rare excursions to WW1.
Eduard kit, silver dope painted with Tamiya Aluminium, metal engine covers with Tamiya Titanium Silver, EZ line (the thicker one) for rigging.
Build thread here
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Aircraft flown by Donat A. [...]
Hasegawa, Nakajima Ki44-II, Hei Shoki (Tojo) of the 104th Flight Regiment
Once again I found myself at the Hobby Store wanting to do something easy and relaxing and for some reason the store owner likes to have Nakajima Ki44 1/48 kits on the shelf. Apparently they sell. This would be a short quick build . . . [...]
The phoenix from the ashes: the Fuji T-1A, Japan's first post-war jet
About the Fuji T-1A
The Fuji T-1 is one of those aircraft designs that arouse the curiosity of aviation enthusiasts more through its attractive appearance than through its technical data. In fact, there is something most remarkable behind [...]
