Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Hi, finished this just in time for Christmas, this is the ubiquitous Academy 1/72 P-39Q/N Airacobra, could have been better, could have been worse. I had some fight with the canopy, because i used replacement vac one from CMK set, and this [...]
So here is my review of 2017.
But first I like to wish you all a wonderful Christmas and all the best wishes for 2018.
Quite some variation over 2017 which included 2 restored models also.
The new toolings from Airfix are fantastic and [...]
This is an early Hasegawa boxing of the Mania Models Ki-27 from about 1977...I think. I put some Eduard details in the cockpit including a seat, belts, and instrument panel but since its so small I really didn't do much more there. The [...]
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 [...]
