Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Rebuild from an old-beaten up Matchbox kit from the 80's. "Unpainted" it with some brake fluid, and painted it again, just to test some techniques.
The last varnish coat produced a 'whitish' look :-/
[UPDATE] Later on, the antena [...]
This plane represents one of the 2nd wave that stroke Pearl Harbour, from the Akagi.
I scribed lots of panel lines and rivets so, at the end, did a heavy weathering to made those work pop.
After a break of almost 30 years, I have lots of [...]
As this year is the 50th aniversary of the invasion of Checoslovaquia, I built this model with their colors.
This plane is quite special to me, for some reasons:
1- It was a gift from my friend Jorge.
2 - It was my first Russian fighter [...]
Returnig to this hobby after almost 30 years, I’ve heard that Airfix is doing OK. So, I built my favorit plane just straight from the box, just to check.
Chosed the early Dunkirk color scheme (B/W underside), as it was fun to [...]
A very old kit, started back in the 80’s and kept unfinished until dec2017.
It represents a pre Falklands war Sea Harrier from the Invencible (and that´s why it is in an almost new condition). This color scheme was repainted during the [...]
The RAF WWII 'wooden wonder' here in a 1970's kit.
It depicts a plane from the 487th Squadron, in Operation Jericho, Amiens 18 Feb 1944.
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Made from wood, this plane has litle panel lines and/or rivets but, based on some [...]
I’ve done a lot of improvements (whell bay, landing gear, engine, engine compartment, panel lines, riveting…)
The cockpit is almost completely an Eduard kit. Although it was for Revell, it wasn´t for this particulary kit, so I had to [...]
Second post on my imodeler account. I would like to thank everybody who commented my last post.
So this is a 1/72 phantom the kit is from hasegawa hope you will like it !
This video presents a short review of my favorite nippers and sprue cutters for scale modeling. Along with the description and demonstration of each sprue cutter or nipper, I have included a few tips on technique. I have some additional [...]
