Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Here is a very old AIRFIX kit I found in the attic. Not sure when it was made? It is rather battered.Sale 1:24.
My partner's father in law was Wing Commander Ken Wallis who built and flew this auto gyro in the James Bond film.He also [...]
Another recently completed build. 1/32 Tamiya F4U-1 birdcage built OOB with Eagle Edition decals. I entered it in the annual Sproo-Do model contest and show and it took a gold and Best Box Stock.
This is the recent Trumpeter kit. This project was just plain fun! I never thought we'd see a mainstream Fishpot, let alone three. Trumpeter has kitted the -9, -9UM, and the -11 that you see here. I was fascinated by this plane as a kid, [...]
Monograms venerable Phantom kit, using decals from Airfix's old F-4 kit. This is an older build, I still have one left I my stash plus a Fujimi photo bird.
One from the cheap seats. Ertl/AMT F-14A .After starting this I almost chucked it ! I think I'd rather have done the old Airfix or even Monogram kits. There is panel line detail but the fit is very poor, I think the Sword Cougar was an [...]
Finally completed. Ilyushin Il-4 A3 10th guard long range bomber squadron 1 regiment. 1944 Xuntong kit. Tough build. Glad its over but love the result. ?
Hope you like.
I had started this build a few months before the stroke. I got tired of looking at it a decided to finish it after the ZM F-4J. The decals are from Syhart and I added a pic of the bottom before adding the flaps and landing gear.
It's been awhile since I have posted anything. This is my first completed build since having a second stroke on June 25th, I built this kit just using one hand and if it had not been engineered great I would not have been able to finish [...]
Lengthy coverage of my build by Airfix:
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110 page review: available upon request.
This kit is straightforward and pleasure to build. This is a OOB build…
Thanks for watching!
All the best!
Dusan.
