Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Here is a little diorama I made up earlier this year using the Tamiya 1:48 Dewoitine D.520 kit. I based the diorama loosely on a series of photos of a Dewoitine D.520 crashed landed sometime during the invasion of France 1940.
Nice kit [...]
I know some modelers may disagree with me on saying this but I feel this is a pretty decent 1/48 scale kit of the P-40B. It builds up nicely and is an easy build but there were two areas that I felt that needed some attention:
The [...]
This is the Airfix F-27 kit, the 'updated' kit which was converted to a -500 using the Hamilton Hobbies LADS conversion set. Decals are from Southern Sky Models.
The aircraft was operated on behalf of the Royal Australian Navy's [...]
The origins of the idiosyncratic He-177 “Greif” can be traced in the mid 1930s, where Generalleutnant Walther Wever, a longtime advocate of strategic bombing, pressed the Luftwaffe to develop a dedicated long-range bomber for the role [...]
Hey Party People! This is the latest addition to my Good From Afar but Far From Good collection. It was a pretty simple and easy build aside from the problems I created for myself. The biggest problem I created for myself was stepping on [...]
Although I do like the looks of multi-wing aircraft, they are not my favorite ones to build due to their complexity, especially the rigging. After receiving an invitation to participate in the wonderful "The Great War: a Tribute to [...]
Courtesy of the National Museum of the Air Force
Technically, the RQ-1 Predator is not just an aircraft but an entire system. Developed as an Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (ACTD), this system consisted of four unmanned aerial [...]
I built the kit mostly OOB, but added an Ultracast resin seat with molded seat belts, and turned brass gun barrels from Master Model. The latter were really necessary because Tamiya only provides decals to represent the cooling holes in [...]
As a kid growing up, I use to read a lot of commando comics. Mainly about the air war stories. I have always been fascinated by the Westland Whirlwind and building this brought my childhood memories back. I am happy with it. the only thing [...]
In 1940, the U.S. Army Air Corps issued Request for Proposal R-40C for a new interceptor with long range, high speed, and high altitude. It encouraged bold proposals with new ideas and technologies to upset the status quo. Two dozen [...]
