Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
The Germans used the Ju 88C-6 as a Tag Zerstorer (Day Destroyer) in the Eastern Front. The fake bomber windows were painted to lure enemy fighters into head on attacks. The effectiveness as well of the fate of the depicted 4. Staffel/KG [...]
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Here’s my recent project, a Mitchell B-25H, one of the strafer versions. This Hasegawa kit came with damaged decals, so I opted for new ones, this time depicting the Pacific theater bird baptized “Powerhouse”, with that not so [...]
Merit 1/48 Grumman J2-5 Duck of the Air Photographic Unit Atlantic-3, 1941. Very nice build, going together better than expected. I painted the tail markings to avoid potential decal adhesion problems.
Looks great amongst my growing [...]
Probably, the most mass produced aircraft in a characteristic camouflage scheme.
This is my 4th vacu-form build and an interesting subject, the Yak-17. Waku is a company from Poland which has released other vacu-form kits in the past, their Yak-17 kit was released in 1984. This kit consists of one styrene sheet with [...]
One of the best kits ever produced.
Inspired by a previous post, I searched for an aircraft with call letters ‘G-A-S’ and found this P-51C with 112 Squadron RAF. There’s actually a ‘J’ required for my complete initials as I do have two middle names, always a [...]
This is the Grumman TBM-1C Avenger flown by a LTJG Rothwell from USS Petrof Bay (CVE 80). The kit is from Hasegawa, decals are from Techmod sheet 72128. No surprises from either the kit or the decals, a very enjoyable build!
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Although only seven examples of this extremely attractive and highly capable flying boat were built from the mid-1930s onwards, each of these flying boats, designed as “flying boat airliners”, was to have a short but all the more [...]
I started this kit back in April and from the very start realised that it had many problems. The fit of all parts was good and the moulding ok but the detail and mistakes just kept occuring as I got into it.
It's supposed to be a SE5a but [...]
