Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
This is the Tamiya 1/72 Mitsubishi A6M2b Zero.
HISTORY
To know a little about the history of this plane and its famous pilot, see my previous article:
(link)
THE KIT
Following my build of Neil Armstrong's Panther in 1:72, and in which I showed a letter he wrote to his father during [...]
Just finished this beautiful and one of my favorites airplanes, the famous Intruder in KD version; had to fill some gaps but was a fun build.
This KD-6 kit by Italeri is highly recommended
Enjoy the pictures.
I built this Mosquito for the De Havilland Group Build. There are a lot of great choices of planes to build for this group, but I wanted to be a little creative in my choice. One of my favorite flying movies is 633 Squadron, which is [...]
This kit has been in my stash since the 1990’s. Some significant work was required to reinforce and clean up the front/rear fuselage join. Without internal reinforcement, there’s too much flex and too little area for glue to adhere [...]
Albatros D.V
Lt Wolf, Jasta 5
WNW 1:32
Tamiya paints
Alclad II metals and printing inks
Prop oils over acrylics
Gaspatch metal turnbuckles ( hence rough cast finish!)
Infini elastic thread for rigging
I like unusual looking airplanes and Grumman sure made one with this X-29.
I wonder where is X-1 to X-28 ?
This model was a charm to build, but I do not recall if I did much research. The photo's do not show hardly any flashing on this [...]
I like unusual looking airplanes and Grumman sure made one with this X-29.
I wonder where is X-1 to X-28 ?
This model was a charm to build, but I do not recall if I did much research. The photo's do not show hardly any flashing on this [...]
This is the second model I've built since restarting my hobby after a nearly 40 year recess. The subject of this attempt was the excellent Tamiya 1:48 Razorback P-47 Thunderbolt. I really wanted to build the "Spirit of Atlantic [...]