Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Masking and painting was a bit time consuming, but in the end it was worth applying and removing all that tape. None of the Tamiya paints was pulled off by the tape.
My first photo shows a printed color side view by Roden which shows the [...]
This segment is titled "C-124A-WINGS/ENGINES" and is Part 3 of the build.
I started building the 4 engines which went together A-OK. I added some thin card stock to the inside of the motor frames. When I slipped on the front end [...]
This part of the story is titled "C-124A-Plans/Fuse/Tail." Fuse is my abbreviation for "Fuselage."
As you recall the cockpit is finished, so it's time for me to finish the rest of the fuselage by sanding everything [...]
I built this 1/144th scale model way back in April, 2013 and I went overboard with almost 300 "in progress" building photo's with my new Canon digital camera. Today is February 10, 2020 and I finished sorting out all my photos [...]
I built this 1/144th scale model way back in April, 2013 and I went overboard with almost 300 "in progress" building photo's with my new Canon digital camera. Today is February 10, 2020 and I finished sorting out all my photos [...]
After the refreshed Latin American subjects from 2016, now on to a few from the Middle East.
Kopro kit, Wolfpack Design ejection seat (had to cut away several mm of it´s bottom because it is too tall), IFF antennas with plastic rods, [...]
1/48 Tamiya P-47D “Bubbletop”
This is the Tamiya 1/48 scale P-47D “Bubbletop”. It was detailed using Edusrd’s BigEd set and the scheme is Thunder Cals decal set number 48006 using the “Ozark Queen” of the 84th FS/78th FG from [...]
This is a 1/48 Northrop Grumman E-2D built as the prototype aircraft designated as Delta One. I used the 1/48 Kinetic E-2C 2000 and converted it to the E-2D. It was made for a wonderful lady who has worked on the E-2 program for many [...]
This was my last build for 2019. It is Academy’s 1/72 P-40N. My Niece got this for me Christmas 2018. I wanted to make this special. After months of planning what I wanted to do with it I decided to make it one of the Burma Banshee’s [...]
