Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
The QU-22 was another civilian craft adapted by the military. Based on the Beechcraft Bonanza of which 27 being modified. It seemed that if it had wings they'd find a mission for it. Flown by 553/554 Recon. Wing Det. 1,Based at Nakhon RTAB [...]
HANRIOT HD.1 [ WEEKEND] KIT 8412
1:48
4386-81 Squadriqlia Caccia
lV Gruppo Aeroplani
Italy 1917
Bob's Buckles 0.4mm /Uschi rigging
This is a great kit, no issues.
I built the kit out of the box and used Twobobs decals (48-085).
Exterior color is FS34031 - The Tamiya acrylic mix is as follows: XF51:7 + XF62:3 + XF69:6
All my models can be viewed here: (link)
For a variety of reasons over my life to date, I've developed a fascination and, dare I say it, an admiration for Leutnant der Reserve Werner Voss, a contemporary and colleague of the much more famous Baron Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen [...]
Hello from sunny South Africa!
This is my IDF F16 C Block 40 Barak No 557 of ' The First Fighter' squadron. As it's an IDF Block 40 jet the cockpit is black.
I added Aires cockpit and afterburner/ exhaust can and undercarriage bays plus [...]
To start, the FW-200B never saw service with QANTAS. I started this kit a few years ago and it stalled due to paint matching problems for another What-If scheme. A month ago I took it down from the shelf of doom and its holding pattern and [...]
So..
Found this horrible Lindberg kit at a discount store.
I have long been fascinated by the GeeBee, and this kit was like candy to me. Could NOT resist.
I imagined it would be amusing to build this kit in a dystopian sort of Mad Max [...]
It is perhaps fortunate for the Royal Air Force that during the dramatic summer months of 1940 this aircraft was not available to the Luftwaffe. A range 30 per cent higher along with a significant speed and climb rate advantage over the [...]
This build was Mirage’s 1/48 scale PZL-23B KARAS Light Bomber of the Polish Air Force. The kit itself was a limited edition that included resin accessories and a collectors coin. Mirage did a nice job on the details of this unique [...]
History
The Lancaster history deserves some reading and the internet is full of articles on that. Even the ever present Wikipedia has a nice one: (link)
Now preserved in the Museum at RAF Hendon, PO-S/R5868 or S for Sugar as it became [...]