Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Ten year's ago this month I built this big beautiful bomber. The kit had the "Yellow and Green" wing decals but I painted them on which eliminate any silvering that the decals would give off. I have used ordinary masking tape [...]
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This is my lastes model, july 2020, is the “Revell” 1/48 Fw 190 D-9, plastic made by Eduard, beautiful kit no fit problems, was an “easy” and straightforward build, took me about two weeks to complete de model. Hope [...]
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This is my post Korean F-86F from Hasegawa. Very nice kit, no issues at all. Since the decals were quite old and "yellowed", I got a new set from Aeromaster. Metallic paint were automotive types and the rest from Gunze [...]
I’ve liked the look of the Roland D.II ever since I first saw it in Kenneth Munson’s "Fighters, Attack, and Training Aircraft, 1914-19" back in the late 60s. It wasn’t a particularly successful fighter despite its good [...]
F-20 Tigershark Aggressor Aircraft, 1/48th scale, Freedom model kits.
The Northrop F-20 Tigershark was a transformation of the classic F-5 series into a low-cost export fighter for U. S. allies during the cold war. At this time the F-5 was [...]
Having had this kit for awhile now, I originally wanted to do some sort of Flight of the Phoenix build, ala Jimmy Stewart, but he flew or crashed a C-82. It worked out well that the kit decals were of the Korean war. i was apprehensive [...]
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Here's the latest model off my bench - Trumpeter's 1/24th scale Bf-109 G10. Built more or less out of the box, but with the addition of some Eduard seatbelts and some Barracuda wheels. I also opened up the armour plate behind [...]
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This is my Nichimo 1/48 Aichi E13A1b ”Jake”, built as part of the Empire of Japan GB.
The Aichi E13A (Allied reporting name: “Jake”) was a long-range reconnaissance seaplane used by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) [...]
In part one I showed the beginning of making this fine looking model and ended by adding some aluminum tubing to the nose wheel. In Part 2 I'm showing the finished nose wheel along with a print of the real wheel.
I like my canopies [...]
