Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
REVELL 1/72 scale Heinkel He177A-5 Greif Luftwaffe long range heavy bomber with guided glide bombs "Fritz X".
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Probably many people will recognize themselves when I describe the reasons for my interest in model aircraft construction as follows: the fascination of flying meets (technical) history and stories, combines with historical biographies and [...]
Here is my Tamiya Mitsubishi G4M1 "Betty". This was a fairly long project, partly documented in the Empire of Japan Group Build (so I will keep description here to a minimum). It is finished in Tamiya XF-11 JN Green, XF-64 Red [...]
This is 1/32 Hasegawa Messerschmitt Bf 109 F-2 flown by II./JG 53 Heinz Bretnütz May-June 1941 while the unit was still based at St Omer Arques in France.
After market parts are:
Aires cockpit set
Aires Wheel well parts
Aires [...]
The F-82 was originally intended as a long range escort fighter, intended to shepherd B-29 raids to Japan beyond the range of the P-51 Mustang or P-38 Lightning. That role went out the window with the end of WWII, and those F-82's that [...]
SOD 1/48 A6M5c Zero finlally finished . Painted with mr Color paints. I used the master brass gun barrels. Weathered with oils and prismacolor pencils 🙂
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Introduction:
One of the advantages of building in 72nd scale is that kits are small and cheap enough to allow me to build aircraft that I’m “kind of” interested in (basically every airplane ever made). As an example, I picked up [...]
Felina! (recognize that, Breaking Bad people?) Best finale ever from the best show ever. Anyway this is my finale, less spectacular for sure, but the Shiden-Kai is done.
Hasegawa makes it so easy to do a nice looking model. Only screw-ups [...]
Since there weren't any July 4 parades here in LA due to the plague, the Condor Squadron did some entertaining for folks. Here's some shots from the join up over my house in the San Fernando Valley, the pass over Santa Monica Beach [...]
The Mantell Incident began in the early afternoon of January 8, 1948 when the Kentucky Highway Patrol reported to the authorities at Godman Army Airfield at Fort Knox that they spotted a circular object about 200-300 feet in diameter [...]
