Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Fellas,
Just finished the RoG 32 scale BF109 G10 done in Hartmans markings. Added the Barracuda resin oil cooler faring, prop, engine scoops, wheels, and cockpit rear bulkhead, Brassin main gear and used Montex masks for the markings. As [...]
My last kit F-7F 3 from U.S.M.C., MAG-33, Phoang, Korea, 1953
Don Gentile - The Most Controversial Ace
When I sat down 30 years ago to write “the definitive fighter pilot screenplay” and chose as my subject the 4th Fighter Group in the Spring of 1944 during “The Great Ace Race,” with Don [...]
Well, I started off the year with an experiment: a 2017 build plan (see here if interested: (link) ). I ended up completing 4 of the 11 proposed builds, and 7 total. I got distracted by group build opportunities and other surges of [...]
The largest, heaviest, and most powerful flying boat in the world (1929)
This is my only made diorama, still, that I've finished just a year ago.
Dornier Do X in 1/144 scale. built by old Otaki's kit that I found from german collector. I [...]
It's 5:00 Am in late January, Capt Ahmad Al-Saladi is still contemplating what he and his brothers are about to partake. 2 days prior the Iraqi Air force had launched a rather ambitious attack against coalition ground forces that had [...]
I was looking at Rob's Post, and I actually thought that I built a few models, I actually only built 2...Quite shabby if I must say so.
I was a great year, I tried scratch building, and I really enjoyed making something from [...]
The 1/48 Spitfire from Eduard
A good model without problems, the only problem for me is the scale, I usually work with 1:32 and this is my first 1:48 is a gift for a colleague.
He asked me at this scale for size issues.
But for my eyes it [...]
I give to you the 1/48 Hasegawa F-8E VF-162 . Painted with Tamiya and MRP paints. Decals was off the Afterburner Yankee Station Mig Killers . Nice to have another shelf of doom project finished [...]
Next year on April 1st, as many of you will know, the Royal Air Force is 100 years old.
I thought that this might be something we could commemorate here on iModeler.
It is a rich history:
(link)
Knowing that The Year of the Cat group build [...]