Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
1/72 Airfix, I modified a few things, pilot seats narrower, removed the hinges from all control surfaces, the tail-plane joints, engine jet-pipes and replaced some antennae, finished in MM and Humbrol enamels with Future over kit and other [...]
Just finished past week, an old mold that required some care to improve it. As you can see I made use of several resin additions and a vacuum-formed canopy that required a lot of adjustment to make it fit, I scratch built several details [...]
Evening all,
The latest off the bench is Revell's new 1/32nd Spitfire MkIXc, which as I'm sure you know follows their release from a few years back of a Spitfire MkII and thus the breakdown of the kits is almost identical.
This was a very [...]
Greetings to all!
I want to show my last work. Something under the influence of such a rainy summer I was struck by the winter theme )). Decided to land your An-8 somewhere in the winter. Cold, drove UMP-350, let it warm up plane before [...]
Early on the morning of the 27th of September 1940, Austrian Gruppenkommandeur, Horst Liensberger, of V Gruppe / (Zerstoerer) Lehrgeschwader 1 led a formation of 10 Bf 110s from his unit on an escort mission for some KG 77 Ju 88s which [...]
Model built straight from the box except for the PE seat belts added.
Some minor details scratch built.
Painted using Tamiya and Gunze acrylic paints.
For more details of this build and WIP photos check:
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My latest effort is the old, but solid, Monogram 1/48 F-8E Crusader.
This classic from Monogram features average fit, with (mostly) accurate outlines and shapes. It has raised panel lines, which also appear accurate compared to drawings [...]
This is a superb kit, If you like to bulid a F8, you can't find a better one like this. Complete out of the box (Profipak) incl. nice decal options. I used Mr. Hobby Colors
H68 – RLM 74
H69 – RLM 75
H417 – RLM 76
H70 – RLM [...]
Here is my Monogram 1/48 OA-4M. The kit has been around for years- I thought it odd that they released an OA-4M before a TA-4F or J, but maybe the weapons for a FAC role was what they thought would sell the kit? One curiosity of the [...]
