Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Ahh... A relaxing, Tamiya shake 'n' bake with nice scheme & markings supplied in the kit. And thank you Tamiya for including a machine that used an Aboukir filter... I just couldn't bear to stick the Vokes on it. Upper colors are Mr. [...]
Good old Dragon... first A/C model I ever had to use 60 grit sandpaper on! Some of it did go together without too much fuss, but I did a good bit of filling and re-scribing to enhance and add details. Eduard P-E in the 'pit of course and [...]
F-20 was last and non-production modification of a famous F-5 fighter. It's a 1/72 Hasegawa kit, mainly OOB build excluding custom gun barrels, gun sight and seat belts. Painting scheme is the "what if" based on a late darker [...]
Wanted to do something different for my dad for fathers day this year...so I scratchbuilt him an airplane we both know and like. The Nakajima G10N Fugaku. Designed in 1943, Fugaku, or Mount Fuji, was to be a six engine "super heavy [...]
These are my first two kits I built 3 years ago. Nothing special really, rookie work, no aftermarket parts, no preshading, no postashading, bad weathering and decal silvering, but both planes are in nice and unusual color scheme so I [...]
We were in Brno this weekend with some good friends to visit the annual model exhibition and contest there (one of Europe's largest plastic modelers meeting and competition exhibition): (link)
Quite unexpected but I won the Best of Show of [...]
Friends, colleagues, Hello.
Here's another model from Trumpeter on a 1/72 scale. This model aircraft Tupolev-22M2, Russian missile carrier bomber. Now they are not built. The model had a lot to modify and replace. For example, I replaced [...]
Bill Bosworth send me these photos of his 1/32 scratchbuilt Douglas Mailplane.
All you scratchbuilders leave me in awe.
The rest of us can practice "We're not worthy! We're not worthy!"
Hello imodelers,
I am happy to present my version of the F3H-2N as my first model on this site.
It is the Hobby Boss kit, with Eduard PE cockpit set. Painted with Aqueous Hobby Color and Vallejo Metal Color. Decals come from the excellent [...]
