Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
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The Supermarine Spitfire and it’s place in Battle of Britain needs no presentation ?
THE KIT & BUILD NOTES:
I’ve always wanted to build a Spitfire in 1:48 and when Tamiya issue their last one I knew time has arrived.
The [...]
This is a "Classic Airframes" kit. I was somewhat shocked when I discovered that the fuselage was not mating up with their clear windscreen/canopy part.
I moved the one piece windscreen/canopy back to where the canopy would [...]
This is the 43 year old Monogram “Razorback” that was based on their 1967 “Bubbletop” kit. I found this original 1977 issue of the kit at a recent show and bought it for $5. The deal of the century! I realized while building it [...]
This is the Accurate Miniatures 1/48 B-25B “Doolittle Raiders”. I built it as the “Ruptured Duck” which was the aircraft followed in the film "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo".
The “Ruptured Duck” was the 7th aircraft to [...]
I picked this kit up a few weeks ago from a vendor table at a recent contest. It’s the old Heller 1/72 PZL 11c. This is a basic but nice kit. I added some framing in the cockpit, seatbelts, landing strut bracing wire and antenna wires. [...]
Inspired by the recent P-38 builds of late, I acquired a vintage Hasegawa kit, where you have to do a little surgery on the nacelles to model the F version. Using a combo of spares and USAAF letters and number sheet from Microscale, I did [...]
Hi all,
here you have the Revell 1/72 Bv138. I have to say that it is one of my favourites aircraft. In many aspects is so strange but at the same time unique. I bought this kit on eBay to a french guy as this model is out of stock and I [...]
Brand New 1/72 Special Hobby He-162
REVELL Arado E377a Mistel V. full video build
Unlike many for whom cockpits are a chore, I love building and detailing the pilots workplace.
First I had to decide if I use the Aires cockpit set 4026 intended for the Hasegawa kit or going with the kit parts. As my copy of the Aires set [...]