Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Soldering is the strongest and most reliable way to join metal parts for scale model construction. This video explains and demonstrates the specific steps that will allow modelers to successfully join metal parts by soldering.
Miles M.2H Hawk Major, RAF trainer; 1:72 Plastic Passion (by SBS)
You may remember my last airplane creation in the "gentlemen's scale" - the scratch Miles M2F – so I may don’t have to tell the whole story again - if so just [...]
Few weeks ago I watched an old, favorite movie. Bridges of Toko-Ri. Just loved those Navy F9F-3 Panthers. So I had to build one and realized I still had one in my stash. Upon opening the box of my HobbyCraft/Trumpeter kit I also discovered [...]
Writing in the "Flight Journal," P-47 special issue, famed Grumman test pilot Corky Meyer - the last actual "airplane guy" to head a major airplane company - named the P-47 Thunderbolt the "best fighter of World [...]
This video explains how to make a custom blade for creating a recessed edge for scale modeling.
This video presents several methods for engraving and adding on raised panel detail on scale modelsE
This video explains two methods for creating raised panel surface detail on scale models.
How many remember their first time? No, not that first time, but the first time you sat down with a model kit. Well here is my first time. I was about the age of my avatar when my mother purchased this Aurora kit for me.
It was the late [...]
The mentality of those whose families fought and suffered on the ‘right side of history’ is often, understandably, to automatically consign those fighting on the other side, to a pigeon hole that does not allow for admiration. During [...]
This video presents three different types of miniature spray guns that are useful in painting scale models. Mini spray guns can be an airbrush, conventional spray gun, or HVLP type. This video explains the differences and uses of each. [...]
