Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
I have a Sufa coming to convert into a Chilean F-16D Peace Puma, but I'm a little short on decals. I tried to find the old 1/72 TwoBobs set for the Peace Puma, but couldn't find one anywhere. I did buy the set of decals you see in the [...]
My last post of 2017, and yes it's another of Tom's P-40's from his on going collection. This is the first Hasegawa P-40 I've completed and it's really a sweet little kit. Went together very well, and no putty or filler was used. I did add [...]
Playing around with the airbrush over large surfaces is the best part of aircraft modeling in my opinion.
Before I painted the black underside, I laid a foundation of reddish brown.
That was followed by a thin layer of dark grey and then [...]
I managed to complete three kits this year, which is pretty good output for me. All are 1/48 scale. First was the Eduard F6F-5, finished in the markings of VF-27 deployed aboard USS Independence in July of 1945. Second was a [...]
Finally finished this Hasegawa 1:48 scale A6M2b, Type 21, Model 0.
I found the overall build to be decent. Great in some spots and a somewhat, pain in the arse in others.
While detail in the cockpit, engine and wheel bay are very [...]
Ola
As promised, the last one to leave the hangar for this year, an Eduard Albatros D.III in 1:48
My first stringbag to date, had some struggles but not too bad as such. The pics are...bad 🙂 But I CBA to do them better at this point, so [...]
Here are the first build pictures of the PC Mk 21,
What I did first was trace all the rib sections and fuselage halves onto tracing paper and transfer them to a sheet of plastic card.
Once I completed that I started to cut everything out [...]
Probably the fewest completions in a long time, but then there were the major completions of "Pacific Thunder" and the upcoming "Tidal Wave," as well as another project not to be spoken of yet, so I had good [...]
