Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
1979 boxing of 1966 Airfix kit, with decals from the Starfighter USN at Midway and TBDs (yes, TBDs for the 8-T-1 decals) at War sets.
I finished it as Ensign Bert Earnest’s Torpedo 8 TBF, which made it to Pearl Harbor took late to join [...]
Finishin´ the oldies as best as we can,not sucessfully,but finishin´ em anyway...hope you like it.
Eduard 1/48 SE5a flown by Maj Roderick Dallas, DSO & Bar, DSC. 39 kills. at No. 40 Squadron, Bruay Airfield France May 1918. Not only an Australian, but also a QUEENSLANDER ? ?❤
Thanks for looking. Not my greatest work but calling [...]
My first attempt at an article or work in progress on this site, please bear with me! Recently purchased (more like invested) in a Harder-Steenbeck Infinity airbrush and decided to try this out on a new kit build; this Tamiya classic [...]
Done as an experiment for myself in doing a NMF.
It came out reasonably.
Primed with Tamiya LP Black Gloss
Painted with Xtreme Metals Polished Aluminium
Alclad Duraluminium,Dark Aluminium, Airframe Aluminium.
Tamiya Nato Black, Rubber [...]
The Airplane:
While the Spitfire IX was both better-known and produced in far larger numbers, the Spitfire VIII represents the high-point of development of the Merlin-powered Spitfire variants.
Basically an unpressurized Mk.VII, the [...]
Well another oldie but goodie for you this evening. The Monogram 1/48ish T-28D from the mid-sixties I believe. I even built it will all of the operating features but decided to go ahead and lock down the flimsy gear with a touch of [...]
WnW 1:32
Tamiya paints
Alcalad II metals
Aero wires from AIMS
This summer a bunch of photographs surfaced from a movie studio archive depicting some IAR-80's in a very sorry state. The photographs were taken in 1954 during the production of a movie and stayed unknown until recently.
IAR-80 was the [...]
