Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
I picked up a 1967 boxing of this 1960 Airfix 1/72 C-47 Douglas Dakota kit last month, and decided to make it my first build for 2025. I chose as my subject "That's All Brother", which led the main airborne invasion of [...]
This is the very well known and built Tamiya 1/48 A6M. I started it on December 6 to commentate the Pearl Harbor attack but due to holidays just finished it today. I had wanted to build an early livery Zero for a while.
This is an easy [...]
*July 13, 1914 in Leuk Kt.Wallis Switzerland Killed on †October 25, 1941 North of Vlissingen.
Franz von Werra was Born as the seventh of eight Children of a Swiss noble Family in the Kanton of Valais Switzerland. His Father was the [...]
The iconic Harvard received much attention in South Africa. While restored aircraft are adorned with bright red colors, service aircraft were baking under the hot African sun and showed considerable bleaching of the orange painted areas. [...]
Not a big year but happy with my builds. For the first time in my life I just built jets! The build I enjoyed the most was the vacu-form WAKU, 1/72 Yak-17. My least favorite was PM's Yak-15.
All of my builds are in 1/72 scale, they are [...]
Here is Eduard's #82142 1/48 Fw 190A-4, painted in the winter scheme of Hannes Trautloft, CO of JG 54 Green Hearts on the Eastern Front in early 1943. I added fabric seatbelts from HGW Models. This is a beautiful kit - easy to build and [...]
These photographs are from my latest builds, two P-51 D Mustangs. I included the two articles about the P-51D Mustangs and their pilots. I built each model in 1/48 scale. The first Mustang is from Hobby Boss. The kit is No. 85806 and it is [...]
An easy to assemble kit with vast camouflage scheme options.
This is Hawker Typhoon MN570 flown by W/Cdr Peter Brooker on D-Day. The model is in 1/32 scale, being the MDC resin and white metal kit. A challenging but rewarding kit, now scarce but the only one available in this scale.
My twelfth kit of the year finished just under the wire last night, here’s an “out of the box” Tamiya 1/72 A6m5. I tried something a little different on this one as some of the photos show. I used a black primer/undercoat and then [...]
