Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Finally finished this thing. It was a kit that I bought about 20 years ago when I was getting back into model building. After market includes Eduard seats and exhaust, as well as a couple of parts from an ancient resin cockpit set. The [...]
This video is the first in my series on airbrushing for scale model construction. It presents the basics of airbrush design, function and controls.
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This model has been in my stash since it was 1st released some years ago. IMHO it is the best model in 1/48 of this famous Helo. It assembled with minimal issues but was tricky in places. The trick is lot's of dry fitting of the various [...]
Hi All! Happy new modelin' year to everyone first as this will be my first article this year. Ops! I didn't do as much modeling recently as I wanted but there are seome progress. I made the mistake last year that I wached Ken Burns and [...]
This video demonstrates the various uses of dental acrylic for the construction of scale models. Dentsply Free Flow product # 680015
I highly recommend this model due it's incredible level of detail out of the box, as well as, the high standard of engineering resulting in perfect fits. Yes, at over $150.00 USD, it is considered pricey, but after building this wonderful [...]
USS Princeton’s deployment on the line at the beginning of her final Korean deployment in April-May 1953 saw nine pilots shot down, with seven of the nine killed or missing. Among the dead was Lt(jg) Richard “Stretch” Clinite of [...]
This is a Hurricane I flown by Robert Stanford-Tuck. I added elevators and wheels by Ultracast, Falcon rear canopy, a Yahu instrument panel, and a pilot figure bashed together from my parts box. Not happy with the snow base. Too [...]
OK, the title is a bit ironic. They are Tu-22m3 boarding platforms in 1:72 scale.
This little kit from North Star Models, with its fragile components, no rigidity and no surface area for but-joining the spiderweb of photo-etch, is one of [...]
Well back at the bench, with all the things going on, I thought I would sit down and take my mind off things, so I decided to start with the wings, and this is what I have done so far.
Firstly I marked out the wings on a piece of plastic [...]
