Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
The Italeri model captures the shapes of the plane well..pity thats as for the Sunderland model the paneling lines are exaggerated in width and depth,more suitable for 1/24 scale ,model that endorses scale 1/72 .
What forced me to do an [...]
History:
The Tempest, which was first called the Typhoon II, was Sydney Camm’s response to the shortcomings of the original Typhoon fighter, most particularly the Typhoon's unexpected deterioration in performance at high altitude due to [...]
Built in 2015.
The 101st fighter wing of the Hungarian Airforce, called Puma after their CO Aladar Heppes, was formed out of several other smaller units, after the US bomb attacks on Hungary increased in the first half of 1944. While the [...]
Built over 6 years ago.
Hasegawa kit, decals from Kagero Topcolors 19, brake lines and antenna wires added, painted with Gunze and Tamiya acrylics.
Aircraft had a standard 74/75/76 camo but was oversprayed with 70/71 in the field.
It was [...]
Raymond Collishaw was a top Canadian RNAF/RAF ace pilot who along with the plane he flew and his famous "Black" Flight helped the British recover from the demoralizing days of "Bloody April" in 1917.
His personal [...]
Man oh man - first time to ever crack open a Tamiya box. Holy smoke - more parts in the cockpit than in the entire Frog 109F build! This was fun.
So obviously I didn't do much, other than add wing tip lights with clear sprue, and I added [...]
This was an old bagged Frog kit. I sanded it smooth and scribbed new panel lines and a few rivet lines. There were actually no nose gun troughs, so I had to drill and ream those out.
Used some Albion Alloy aluminum tubing for gun [...]
80 years ago today...
Here´s another Barbarossa participant, built over 6 years ago. Hasegawa kit with Eagle Strike decals, Gunze and Tamiya paints used.
Aircraft of 7./JG54 in winter 1941.
This build was inspired by some recent A-20G builds from our friends here at iModeler, as well as the fact that I was able to pickup this kit secondhand at my local hobby shop. The kit was the "Wings Aviation Collection" boxing, [...]
The story begins 6 years ago.
I was asked to supply a group of Vietnam era helicopters to an Aviation museum for a 40th anniversary for the ending of the Vietnam War.
This was to be a two year commitment.
I compiled the following [...]
