Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
I often get the inspiration to make a model from reading a book about the type: in this instance, "They gave me a Seafire" by Cdr. R 'Mike' Crosley, which gave me a Seafire too! And so a start was made. I'd left it too late to [...]
Hey everyone. This is the Tamiya P47D I finally finished after about a year of just sitting there.I'm not a plane guy, so I'm less skilled with them and thus less inspired to work on them when I get spare time. However,I'm pretty happy [...]
All I wanted to do was a simple build, but getting this of the net, it was missing the canopy, luckily, I got a crystal clear from Squadron. One more Tomcatter.
Here’s my Planet Models resin build of the Nakajima Ki-4 Type 94 Otsu In 1:48. A fairly easy build for a biplane, good fit and decent detail, one of the better kits by Planet Models.
The Ki-4 was originally produced by Nakajima in [...]
About three months ago I started building a MiG-21 with North Vietnamese markings. My original idea was to take part in an Instagram contest focused on the Vietnam War. At first, I was planning to build both a MiG-21 and an F-4.
Then my [...]
Started in Sept '24 but came to a halt when the thirty-seven year old kit decals and forty-five year old Microscale decals both turned into molecule sized fragments the moment they hit the water.
Now here is Memphis Belle II in all her [...]
This build is an homage to SAR crews everywhere past, present and future. In this case RCAF 14 Wing Greenwood, N.S. lost six good men on the afternoon of October, 2nd 1998 - "That Others May Live" - In memory of the Labrador [...]
There are plenty reviews of the Trumpeter P-47 so no need to rehash those comments. But I will add if you dry fit everything all trouble areas can be avoided.
I've always disliked how the rivets are represented on these kits. They [...]
In 1964, a Jewish Iraqi, Yusuf, contacted Israeli personnel in Tehran, as Israel and Iran still had diplomatic relations. Yusuf, since 10 years of age, had been working as a servant for a Maronite Christian family. His girlfriend's friend [...]
This isn't my usual fare, but our club's meeting theme for April (I suppose in honor of Easter) was Eggplanes and Tune Tanks. I happened to be in the local Hobby Town a couple months ago and saw this, and decided, "What the [...]
