2020 BUILDS
My most prolific year ever; not because of the obvious but this is the first time I have built similar kits in tandem
iModeler Aviation
Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Ich sehe was, was du nicht siehst...
While the Japanese might be more known for their submarine-born aircraft, they were not the only ones to have toyed with the idea. The Arado 231 "U-bootsauge" was an early '41 attempt to make a submersible-deployed observation [...]
2020 – the year when everything ran together like spilled paint
I want to be clear it is not a joke when I tell you that looking back on this year and trying to gauge its scope and its contents is like wrestling an oily pig in a carnival hall-of-mirrors. It was like dropping ten open bottles of paint [...]
Antonov AN-2 Colt
Hobbyboss produced three kits of the AN-2, the AN-2V, the AN-2M and AN-2CX. The AN-2M is a specialized agricultural variant with a hermetically sealed cockpit and the squared-off rudder, so being one who wants a little more bang for their [...]
1/32 Hasegawa Messerschmitt Bf 109G 14AS
This is 1/32 Hasegawa Messerschmitt Bf 109G-14AS with the markings of “Black 3” from JG 27 in Germany 1944.
Cockpit modified by MDC cockpit set and Eduard Löök instrument panel.
Other modifications are:
Barracudacast Spinner & [...]
Italian Stallion...1/48 Macchi MC.200 Saetta, Regia Aeronautica
Italeri kit built oob in 2012, Gunze and Tamiya paints used. The open wheel wells leave room for detailing if someone wants.
BTW, the canopy sidewalls should lie down more to the fuselage.
The model shows an a/c of 150th Gruppo Autonomo CT [...]
Italian Stallion…1/48 Fiat G.55 Centauro, Aeronautica Nazionale Repubblicana
Built in 2016.
Initially my dad wanted to do the splinter camo "blue 11" with the Special Hobby Sottoserie 0 kit. But then he found out that the kit had only the wings for a Serie 1 aircraft and some filling, sanding and [...]
Messerschmitt Bf109 G-6 WNr 161742, Slowak, Eduard 1/48
I do know this Eduard kit has been presented here before, but in order to present my 109's I have chosen to add it here too.
I have used the kit decals even though I do realise they are slightly wrong with too fat lines. I opened the vent [...]
1/48 Manshu Ki-79b – Empire of Japan Group Build.
This is the new RS Models kit of this unusual little plane. The Ki-79 was a trainer version of the Ki-27 army fighter. It was produced in Harbin, Manchuria by the Manshu Aircraft subsidiary of the Japanese Nakajima company. It was [...]
1/48 Bell P-39L Airacobra, 81st FG North Africa
Built in 2015.
Eduard kit, painted with Gunze and Tamiya paints, the Azure is from Model Master.
Some discussion about the camo paints of these planes. As far as I know they were initially built for and delivered to the Brits but not [...]
