Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Still need some more practice but the smaller I get the more challenging it becomes to make joints fit properly and remember to printout cut lines. Overall I feel really happy with the final outcome of this model. Makes mye want to do a [...]
This video describes the important elements of a fillet and how to create fillets for scale models.
Modeling the A-26B Invader by combining the best of the Monogram and ICM kits (link)
Scale Model Workshop website (link)
One of those planes that looked like a winner and didn’t quite pan out that way, I always considered the Me-410 looked like a mean machine. It did do considerable damage once the Me-210/410 design was finalized, but the history books do [...]
Another inspiration while reading R.S.Tucks biography, 'Fly for your Life', I did not know that the Regia Aeronautica sent aircraft to participate in the Battle of Britain. One learned fact the book does report was that the Fiat C.R.42 [...]
Here's another Eduard '109. I used a lot of Eduard's 3D printed aftermarket sets (7 to be exact), which I will list below. The kit, as you know, is just the best. The decals really came through on this build, especially the red "tulip [...]
Here is a little diorama I made up earlier this year using the Tamiya 1:48 Dewoitine D.520 kit. I based the diorama loosely on a series of photos of a Dewoitine D.520 crashed landed sometime during the invasion of France 1940.
Nice kit [...]
I know some modelers may disagree with me on saying this but I feel this is a pretty decent 1/48 scale kit of the P-40B. It builds up nicely and is an easy build but there were two areas that I felt that needed some attention:
The [...]
This is the Airfix F-27 kit, the 'updated' kit which was converted to a -500 using the Hamilton Hobbies LADS conversion set. Decals are from Southern Sky Models.
The aircraft was operated on behalf of the Royal Australian Navy's [...]
The origins of the idiosyncratic He-177 “Greif” can be traced in the mid 1930s, where Generalleutnant Walther Wever, a longtime advocate of strategic bombing, pressed the Luftwaffe to develop a dedicated long-range bomber for the role [...]
Hey Party People! This is the latest addition to my Good From Afar but Far From Good collection. It was a pretty simple and easy build aside from the problems I created for myself. The biggest problem I created for myself was stepping on [...]
