Tupolev Tu-95 Bear D, DML 1/200
Maritime recon. version of the Bear, Caused the carriers I was on to launch many an Alert Five while cruising the Med. or transiting the Atlantic.
iModeler Aviation
Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Tamiya 1:48 F4U-1D, white 155, VF-84, USS Bunker Hill, February 1945
Corsair built the Tamiya kit in 1:48 scale.
1/48 Minicraft F4U-4B VMF-323 Korea
This F4U-4B has all the same modifications as my other F4U-4B here on Imodeler, except that the wings are not folded, and I have used a flap set from the Verlinden F4U-4 detail set for the Hasegawa kit.
The weapons are 1000 lb bombs from [...]
P-51K Mustang Mk.IVa, 3 Squadron RAAF, Italy, 1944/45.
This was originally intended to be the Tamiya 1/32 kit, but I got distracted when I just opened it's 1/48 cousin & at the same time came across a wealth of reference material for this squadron on the internet. Pretty much [...]
1/48 Minicraft F4U-4B VMF-214 Korea
I built one of my Minicraft 1/48 F4U-4B kits with Tamiya 1/48 F4U wing fold hinge parts.
I made resin copies of Tamiya 1/48 F4U-1 oil cooler inlets, then cut out 3 of the vanes to modify them to match F4U-4 inlets. They have a much better [...]
1/48 Hasegawa “Year of the Cat” F6F-5K Hellcat “Target Tow / Drone “
Here she is in all her glory... hot off the work bench.
This one was built as one of four F6F Hellcats that I was building at the same time in our "Year of the Cat" Group Build.
I wanted to build something different, so I chose [...]
Italeri 1:48 Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless NZ5060, RNZAF Piva, April 1944
No. 25 Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force was formed at Seagrove, Auckland in July 1943 with Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bombers and served in the Southern Pacific based at the Piva Airstrip on Bougainville, flying missions against [...]
1/48 AD-4NA Skyraider
A few years ago, I decided to try and fold the wings on one of my 1/48 Monogram AD-6 skyraiders. the parts seemed to be there, but it was not mentioned in the instructions.
One problem with cutting the wings is that it is impossible to [...]
PZL P.7 of “Bajan Trio” (Arma Hobby 1/72)
A long time ago I've assembled several PZL P.7/P.11 kits from Poland manufacturer PZW Siedlce. This kit is still present on the market, but it could be treated only as a "classic" kit nowadays. But last year (2017) another polish [...]
