Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Eduard 1/48 Fokker DVIII flown by Gefr. Kurt Blumener, Jasta 6. Bernes, France August 1918. When I'm not in the mood to do alot of rigging I build a late war Fokker. This one was easy as, to build. Back to rigging next though, with a [...]
This is my last build for 2021. It was built for a club competition with a photo evidence deadline of 23:59 on 31 December and was completed with 5 hours 34 minutes to go. The reason for this deadline was the various Melbourne Covid-19 [...]
Hello friends,
today I have another US NAVY aircraft for you: It is the nice F6F-3 Hellcat kit from Eduard.
The kit: "Eduard 84160 F6F-3P weekend edition" The model is almost completely build from the box, I only added seat [...]
The Airplane:
At the time of its appearance in combat over China in September 1940, the Mitsubishi A6M2 "Zero" was arguably the most advanced single-seat single-engine fighter in the world. That it was designed to fly from [...]
After the 'Flight 19' lost Avengers project, a mini-group build instigated by our absent but not forgotten friend David Leigh-Smith, the small group of friends who had participated decided we might use the title of Adolf Galland's book and [...]
It had been way too long since I'd built a USN plane in the four-color scheme, so I went with the Eduard kit that's been sitting in my stash for quite a few years. I've done two 1:48 Hellcats in the past: a Hasegawa F6F-3 many years ago [...]
Salute, gents.
This is Academy's P-47 D in 1/48, a well known kit which was superseded by the Tamiya offering. It is not a bad kit, but can use some improvements. Ultracast resin wheels, seat (with molded harness) and propeller were used. [...]
Having fun with the ancient Tamiya A-10 kit
The kit really shows its age (not Tamiya’s best) with some fit problems joining the fuselage halves and a few raised panels. But, when it’s solved, all the rest goes quite right.
Until [...]