Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Dear fellow iModelers,
First of all: Happy New Year to you all!
I would like to present to you my first completion of 2025.
A bit of history:
The build depicts a Cub of 17 VARWA (Verkennings & Artillerie Waarneming).
The squadron [...]
Focke-Wulf A-8/R-2 "Sturmbock", WkNo. 682204, 5th/JG 300, Löbnitz, October 1944.
Quite well worn FW-190 "Sturmbock" from late 1944. The Sturmbock version was specially designed to fight the american bombers and had [...]
Mini model with high G turn contrails.
Not much story around this Eduard Kit. Almost perfect kit, I build it out-of-the-box. As a profi-pack it included seat belts and masks. Only had to grab some glue and paint 😀
as usual, I used my favourite Hataka paints
I used some [...]
The model depicts a famous Ju-88C piloted Heinrich Prinz Sayn-Wittgenstein, Germany January 1944. Externally, it looks similar in many respects with the Ju 88G-1. The conversion was possible thanks to spare parts from the Dragon Ju 88G [...]
My take on the newest K version of Eduard’s 109 lineage.
Their weekend box, some PE seatbelts from one of their generic Luftwaffe sets and the specific masks to paint this machine.
Made some minor improvements over a few missing [...]
Heller's Mirage III variants is a basic kit with many seam trenches. Yet, the completed model looks like the real aircraft.
In my previous article on the Hawker Fury biplane and the available models I mentioned the early first contract Furies of No. 43 Squadron. These were different to the usual Fury with 4 individual cabane struts and I was quite intrigued by [...]
Here's my build of a Lockheed F-80C Shooting Star in 1/72 scale with markings as during the Korean War.
The kit used was the vintage Airfix kit from 1974. Panel lines were re-scribed and rivets added. The cockpit and seat were re-done with [...]
Many of you might know that I used to be a volunteer at the National Museum of WWII Aviation. My favorite plane to work on was the P-38 “White 33” which was Tamiya’s reference when designing their kit. As I already made a White 33 in [...]
