Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
De Havilland DH9 finally finished.
During the first war, Belgium received at least twenty DH9s from Great Britain and in 1922-23, the Sabca produced around thirty. It is one of the latter which I am giving here an interpretation, [...]
A couple of A-4s built a while back, Hasegawa with a condor conversion applied for the Blue Tail Fly A-4c andTrumpeter was used for Lady Jessie.
Cleveland, 1946, the wild west of Air Racing continued in a big way after the end of WWII. Many of the guys that raced in the 30's returned, along with a new crop of enthusiasts. The days of the high horsepower homebuilts was basically [...]
This is my contribution to the Korean war group build or rather my first contribution as I may well do more , we have plenty of time after all.
The kit is the Special Hobby offering , I picked this kit up some years ago for £30 at a club [...]
Although this year has brought a lot of trouble to everyone, so it did not bypass my family either, with a couple of sad moments, thanks to this hobby, somehow a success to maintain "mental balance".
I hope that the next one will [...]
Eduard kit, upper wing and fuselage Balkenkreuz decals taken from a Fw190 kit because Erla G-10 had smaller ones, besides that the ones on the upper wings were in a slightly more outward position. Brake lines done with plastic rods and [...]
My most prolific year ever; not because of the obvious but this is the first time I have built similar kits in tandem
While the Japanese might be more known for their submarine-born aircraft, they were not the only ones to have toyed with the idea. The Arado 231 "U-bootsauge" was an early '41 attempt to make a submersible-deployed observation [...]
I want to be clear it is not a joke when I tell you that looking back on this year and trying to gauge its scope and its contents is like wrestling an oily pig in a carnival hall-of-mirrors. It was like dropping ten open bottles of paint [...]
Hobbyboss produced three kits of the AN-2, the AN-2V, the AN-2M and AN-2CX. The AN-2M is a specialized agricultural variant with a hermetically sealed cockpit and the squared-off rudder, so being one who wants a little more bang for their [...]
