Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Here's one of 747-100's on jacks for a retraction check at the Los Angeles maintenance base just before we retired the Whales in 1999. These normally weren't done outside unless the hangars were full, which was probably the case here. [...]
TAMIYA 1/48 British Tank Destroyer M10 IIC Achilles
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Special thanks to my girlfriend for this kit!
SPARMAX Airbrush: Model SP-35c with Silver Bullet [...]
With 3 other models in various stages of building I've just finished this re-edition of this old Heller kit of the Mirage III-R in 1/72.
I's a basic kit, keeping in mind the tooling is over 40 years old, but the lines of the Mirage III are [...]
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 [...]
