Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Quoting Wiki: Westland Wasp - British light anti-submarine warfare helicopter, produced by Westland Helicopters between 1963 and 1968, with a total of 98 machines produced.
The helicopter was based on the Westland Scout, and was adapted [...]
This is the LS/ ARII tooling of the 1/144 H8K Emily. A very nice and older tooling of this kit . Overall pretty basic but that ca be expected for this scale. It has engraved panel lines & it fits well. A perfect candidate for a [...]
Hello fellow modellers!
It has been a long time since my last article, too long. Seeing this box art always evokes memories of me as a young (12 years old) and impressionable lad, circa 1976, in my now long-gone local hobby shop wanting [...]
The sublime Accurate Miniatures SBD kit was only marred by the decals that resisted to all solvents that I applied.
I enjoyed this kit so so much, what a beautiful helicopter. As always it needed a few upgrades but those are what makes it individual and interesting.
I decided to do the Italian ISAF version that was used in Afghanistan.
I started out in [...]
Having completed an IDF Nesher model from a limited edition Wingman kit I was left with a large decal sheet depicting South American Finger and Dagger variants. I was curious whether the very basic ESCI comparable kit would look if [...]
This is the Fujimi 1/72 F-86 family. I swapped the wings from the RF-86F40 'WoodPeccker' boxig with a Fujimi F-86F30 to do the 'Haymaker' FU-864 RF-86F30 USAF which was featured in the Hasegawa 1/48 boxing---Hard to find now. I used [...]
Academy model... from the box ; I use AK Real color paints
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The start of a bit of a Phantom marathon.
Primed with Tamiya Neutral Grey
Painted with:
Colourcoats Dark Green, Dark Sea Grey and Dark Gull Grey.
Mr. Color Light Aircraft Grey.
Xtreme Metals Steel, Pale Burnt Metal, Burnt Metal and Jet [...]
