Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
This P-36 is the new Academy re-release of the relatively old Hobbycraft kit. This kit has pretty good moulding and recessed panel lines, but it is pretty rudimental in cockpit and engine/engine cowling area. The plastic is moulded in [...]
A warning, gentlemen: there's some outrageous and unashamed name-dropping in the following piece, so I'll apologise for that in advance.
Imagine that you are a very young man about to graduate from advanced pilot training at RAAF Base [...]
The F-20 was of course the last of the famous Northrop F-5 line.
Regrettably the F-20 did not go into production despite being a superb aircraft
In 1983/4 the RNZAF sent a team to the USA to evaluate the F- 20 Tigershark as a possible [...]
As threatened previously, here are some pics and the background to what started out as one of those Hachette (very expensive) part works that claimed to give you a 1/8th scale model of the Red Baron's Fokker Triplane.
An old chap who died [...]
Here's the mate to my last P-47 article...I built this plane about 10 years ago.
I built this one at the same time as "Fiery Ginger" as flown by Colonel Kearby. These two planes were my first attempt at working out the kinks [...]
1/144 scale RUSSIAN STRATEGIC AIRLIFTER IL-76MD.
Excellent kit by Zvezda (video preview).
Il-76 – the main military transport aircraft of the USSR and Russia, having made the first flight in 1971, it still has not lost its importance and [...]
When I was a kid I lived on Monograms from Kmart. But after staring at a Tamiya Rufe in a local hobby store, my imagination got the better of me, I weighed a 3 for 1 value trade, and I bought the model. It became a favorite in my [...]
Here are a few photos of the new Airfix Me 262 which is featured in the new issue of Airfix Model World Magazine. This is a superb little kit, detail is excellent. This should be in the shops by Autumn I believe. Hope you enjoy the photos!
This is the Revell's 1/48 Wessex Queen's Flight.
To be honest, not much to say.
Having seen the original one Colindale RAF Museum, I decided to build one.
Phase one was being patient and searching on Ebay.
Took a while but managed to [...]
