Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
I finally got to complete my first build for 2024, this is KP's old MiG-17PF, kit no.7 released in 1974. This was a semi rough build, fit was not the best, some light flash that needed cleaning. Wings to the fuselage and canopy fit had [...]
The 1/48th Tamiya F4U-1D Corsair kit is considered to be one of the better fitting model kits around. It is typically reasonably priced, has good details, optional folded wings and dropped flaps, giving model makers excellent results [...]
This was fun to build. Always amazed at how a flat piece of paper can become a decent model. Definitely a bit more advanced than fiddlers green model, but certainly doable. Full build coming soon to YouTube.One love.
One of my dad´s rare excursions to the helicopter world.
Revell Germany´s 2009 edition of the initially 1986 released Monogram kit, regarding it´s age it isn´t that bad.
Didn´t want to do the Sand Shark or a single coloured Israeli [...]
My latest completion is Anigrand's 1/72nd scale full resin kit of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator - the forgotten bomber of WWII.
The B-32 was conceived as an insurance policy in case the B-29 project ended in failure. Consolidated [...]
This is the newly released Academy model. It’s actually a re-pop of the Minicraft kit. Academy has been slowly reissuing Minicraft’s more popular kits recently. I always wanted one of these but waited too long as Minicraft went out [...]
One I fancied doing since it was announced.
The majority of the kit fits and goes together without any major issues but it is plagued with some strange engineering decisions.
Having to place the landing gear so early in the build makes for [...]
Does a B-17 Flying Fortress really need to be presented in modelling circles? Probably not, if it is a representative of the thousands of E, F or G versions built, but very well, if one is faced with the early variant B-17B as in this [...]
Following Hitler's outburst when he found out that the new and promising jet aircraft would not be suitable to bomb England, the A2 variant was developed for bombing missions with two bomb racks. Later, a dedicated bomber was designed with [...]
Combat effectiveness improvements
Over the Course of its long service Life, the Mirage Fleet has been continually modified to increase its combat effectiveness, with the aircraft undergoing electronic and Aerodynamik improvements. The most [...]
