Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
When I first saw a photo of the Eurofighter FGR4 in the 75th anniversary Battle of Britain colors, I immediately put having a model of that plane on my want list. Eventually I picked up a Revell 1/72 Eurofighter and found the Caracal [...]
F-4C-19-MC BuAer No. 63-7544, roughly the 141st F-4C manufactured, originally delivered In the gray/white scheme and with the Navy style inboard pylons. Apparently it had a short life, part of the 8TFW, and the 480th TFW, 366TFW. where it [...]
One of the members in our club recently built the Dragon 1/48 Ju-188 E1, and it inspired me to pull out the old Italeri A/E kit I had in the stash. It was a pretty low-parts-count kit, so thought it might be a fairly quick build, but [...]
B-17E Flying Fortress serial number 41-2616 THE BLUE GOOSE is somewhat enigmatic due to there being no known photographs of her. What is known is that the USAAF requisitioned her from an RAF order and that she was given a unique paint job [...]
Hi all,
Finally I finished another model, I'm just not such a quick builder mainly caused by lack of time.
This build is the Curtiss Tomahawk Mk.II from Airfix (A05133) and represents the No. 112 squadron of the RAF in Libya 1941.
Usually [...]
Hi everyone, after visiting the aircraft museum, I decided for my next build I was going to make a plane. My mom got me the Academy 1/72 Phantom for winning 5th in my speech and debate competition. The phantom was supposed to be gray but I [...]
This is 1/32 Eduard (Hasegawa) P-40N Warhawk finished with the markings of 89th FS 80th FG in India during 1944.
I have used Gunze Sangyo acrylics. Paint scheme is well known Olive Drab over Neutral grey with green patches .
Note the [...]
I posted these photo's with a long story on Large Scale Planes a dozen year's or more ago.
In the 1960's and up until the late 1990's I was self-employed as a professional documentary 16mm film producer, including still photographer. In [...]
This is the recent Special Hobby kit. This is one of those planes that I’ve always wanted on the shelf and was surprised to see SH and Sword release kits simultaneously. The kit built up very nicely. It features a well detailed [...]
