Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Another one escapes the ..."Shelf of DOOM!"
1:48 scale, Accurate Miniatures P-51B, "Mustang". This kit sat languishing on the aforementioned "SoD" for quite a few more years than I'd like to mention. For [...]
A challenging kit by Classic Airframes with some scratch building to complement the basic mold.
This plane was flown by Lt. Commander Roger Hedrick- coincidentally same last name as mine- when he served as CO of VF-84 on USS Bunker Hill in 1945. Hedrick had 12 total air victories including 3 in one day. His photo is included. He [...]
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I have recently become interested in flying boats. After the great success of the PBY-5A flying boat project, I decided to build a PBM-5A. Initially, I wanted to find a model in the PBM5 version, but the Minicraft model on eBay was [...]
A very nice kit by Dragon.
As announced, here´s my dad´s third of three Firefly FR.1.
Like the Thai one, Special Hobby kit, Eduard seatbelts, added a scratch rearview mirror. Used a plastic rod for the whip antenna and EZ Line for the antenna wires. Painted with a [...]
Here's my recently completed Fairey Flycatcher on wooden floats by Armory Models in 1:48. For an interesting history of this aircraft, I refer you to Tom Cleaver's article and build of his Flycatcher on this forum. This is a very nice [...]
Other than the Eduard belts and scrounged decals this is an entirely from the box build - easily as nice & fuss-free as the 1:72 Tempest I finished a few weeks back. Paint isn't straight from the Tamiya jar(s), I mixed all of them [...]
The Schwalbe also had a fair share of complex camouflage patterns. In this example, dark greens were painted over the light blue color. Then, the greens were removed by airbrushing a dilution fluid to highlight the underneath layer.
