Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Fokker D.VII 286/18, Willi Gabriel
Jasta 11, June 1918 (11 victories)
WNW 32011 1:32
Tamiya, Alclad II and Printers inks
MRP varnishes
Aviattic lozenge on wings...with WNW mix for varnish to reduce their value ( shame!)
Gaspatch 1:48 [...]
This is 1/32 Dragon Messerschmitt Bf 109E 7 trop with the markings of"S9 DR" in Libya 1942.
Modifications are:
Yahu instrument panel
Eduard seat belts
HGW decals
Paints : Gunze Sangyo acrylics
Happy modelling
I wanted to find something a little different to build for the "Imperial German Air Service / Luftwaffe Group Build May 1st, 1910, to Present Day", and I discovered the Nike Hercules (MIM-14) surface-to-air missile was used by [...]
My first Airfix kit, wil do more for sure! The base is from a Bandai kit.
The Folland Gnat was a small, swept-wing British subsonic jet trainer and light fighter aircraft developed by Folland Aircraft for the Royal Air Force, and flown [...]
An earlier build (early 1990s) and only photographed fairly recently at the Cameron Airport, the Testors 1/48 F-104A Starfighter is a very basic, simple old model. Originally, it was a Hawk release from 1957. I love these birds and [...]
My personal tribute to Spitfire this year. Hasegawa, Special Hobby, Eduard. Some wrong( Israel was without guns), but i am happy. Never forget sound over Duxford.
From "The Hook":
"Naval Aviation lost a devoted friend when Jessie Beck, 83, died in Reno, NV, in July 1987. As the first woman to own a major Nevada casino - the Riverside Hotel and Casino, she was called "the gambling [...]
YGBSM meaning... You gotta be sh**ing me! The reaction to the description of the Wild Weasel mission when it was explained to an Electronic warfare officer who had transferred from B-52s. Much has been written about the WW mission who went [...]
I recently finished building a 1/72 Revell/Lindberg He-162. This should have been an easy build but I lost interest on it pretty early after I started the build. About 4 different builds got done before I got serious on this one again. [...]
This represents one of the dozen or so H 75's that were captured by Germans, which sold many to the Finns. I think that the Monogram kit is still the best representation of the P-36 in 1/72. Thanks go to Tom Bebout for supplying the kit.