Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
LTJG Jack “Dusty” Kleiss was a Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber pilot with Scouting Six flying from the USS Enterprise (CV-6). His first combat was during the raid on Kwajalein Atoll where he hit Japanese shore installations and [...]
So I always thought the Fiat CR-32 was a good-looking aero plane. Pointy nose, scalloped wings/tail, cool spatted wheels. For some reason I never got round to doing one, most likely due to the limited run nature of the available 1/48 kits. [...]
About one hundred 109G aircraft were converted to a two seat version during 1944 for training purposes.
Falcon produced a basic (and only) 1/48 styrene Bf 109G-12 version. It is based on the G-4 airframe. I used spare parts from Hasegawa [...]
This 1/48th Trumpeter F9F-2 Panther is a good kit that will get you a nice display model, straight out of the box, without much hassle. I also bought one of the Hobbycraft kits and built it up as the photo-recon variant of the Panther in [...]
Introduction
In my Vincent review I mentioned the Spanish Vildebeest and how I had decided not to bother. Unfortunately, I had been bitten and a nagging desire slowly crept up on me. The challenge of trying to build an accurate model was [...]
When I found Owl Decal sheet OWLDS72099 featuring a Bf-108 with I. Gruppe of the Zerstörergeschwader 1, I figured I had to build a ‘Micro Stinger ‘ to display next to my ‘Little Stinger’ Bf-109.
This Heller kit was first molded in [...]
This is an old Hasegawa kit from 1994 that I had sitting in my closet for the while. The decals were unusable so I built it without them. I painted on the meatballs and hand brushed the tail number with a stencil. I went for a field [...]
1/35 Nakajima B5N (中島 B5N, Allied reporting name "Kate") was the standard carrier-based torpedo bomber of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) for much of World War II.
Inspired by vintage pictures. The model kit came with [...]
