Mikoyan-Gurovich Mig-3
Trumpeter 1:48
Tamiya paints
iModeler Aviation
Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Another "Two - Winger.
This is another two-winger model I built. It's in 1/48 scale and was made by "Classic Airframes." The box art says one name, while another name is listed on one of the parts. Let's call it both names.
I.M.A.N AND I.M.A.M. = [...]
Lavochkin La-5
Zvezda 1:48
MRP paints
One day I'll do a clean canopy...!
Revell of Germany, (Accurate Miniatures) 1:48 Scale IL-2, "Stormovik"
The first for the new year, 2020, is this Revell of Germany, Ilyushin Il-2, Stormovik.
Actually this is a repop of the Accurate Minatures kit, and is STILL a very nice kit, albeit a wee bit fiddley overall.
The kit itself builds well, and [...]
1/48 Scale Revell Stearman PT-17
Fifty to 70 years ago we use to call this kind of bird a "Double-Winger." Sometime later the name was change to "Bi-Wing" or something like that.
Anyways the kit was a snap to build. "Snap" in American English [...]
Carpathian Eagle…Hasegawa 1/48 Hawker Hurricane Mk.I Romanian Airforce
Built last year. Hasegawa Romanian Hurricane kit, Eduard seatbelts, in the kit missing early style prop and spinner taken from the new Airfix Hurricane I, missing 5-spoke wheels from ultracast, missing early style antenna mast from the [...]
1/48 Scale Lindberg XF-91 Jet/Rocket Experimental Fighter
Lindberg made an excellent starter kit for the "Advanced" modeler like me, so I went full-bore on the project by scratch-building just about everything.
All 3 landing gears were made out of aluminum and styrene. I cut in the [...]
What if… RAAF JAS-39 Gripen
This is the first in a series of ‘what if’ aircraft that I’m building.
In 1999 the Australian Department of Defence announced Project AIR 6000 "New Air Combat Capability (NACC)", which was intended to find a replacement for [...]
Me 209 V1: a dwarf on speed
755.138 kilometres per hour is an impressive speed- and that flight performance with which the Me 209 V1 shown here set a world speed record on 26 April 1939, which was to last until 1969.
At the controls of this fragile and difficult to [...]
1/48 Hasegawa F/A-18A #35 Desert Splinter
My first model for 2020. 1/48 Hasegawa hornet painted with gunze acrylics and Fightertown Decals. Hope you guys like it.
Eric
