Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Hi again folks, I've finally finished my favourite aircraft of all time! This is the Trumpeter 1/32 kit of the GR-7. The kit was a Xmas present from my parents, not last Xmas, the one before. I wanted to get a bit of practice in first with [...]
This is a project i'd been working on for about a year and a half. Many of you out there are already aware of the backstory behind this and i can't promise that there will be any value added by repeating it here, but you never know.
This [...]
Built OOB except added crew, and swapped out 1000 lb iron bombs for r******d bombs. Was a pretty nice kit - a bit difficult to get the exhaust nozzles snuggled up next to the fuselage once everything was put together. I used a panel line [...]
As the one before, Revell 1/32
Aires cockpit, GWH seat belts,Brassin exhaust, new small wheel bulges on wings.
Barracudacals marking Yellow 24 6/JG27, sprayed RVT band
Also,some pics from the cockpits( one is the modified kit one, the [...]
Revell 1/32. I will not get into details about the kit which has issues. Too many issues to call it a great kit. Passable.
Modified cockpit,Aires belts, drilled out exaust,Brassin wheels.
The camouflage was interesting to me, a low viz [...]
Originally designed as a high altitude interceptor, in which range would not be a major consideration, the P-47's role changed completely when it was the only American fighter with much chance against the Luftwaffe, and was thus pressed [...]
Hello all.
I´m going to share with you this old project, it took me good 18 months to finish it and so far it has been the longest one for me in a single model, I´m not precisely a "Fast Modeler". Maybe some of you had seen [...]
THE STORY OF THE A-4E LADY JESSIE
Lady Jessie was married to Fred Beck. They ran the Keno game at Harold's Club in Reno. They became acquainted with Dick Perry,(She was like an adopted Mother to Lcdr Dick Perry.) who was shot down and [...]
1/72 Airfix, OOB, finished in Humbrol and MM enamels with Tamiya X22 over kit decals. built pre 2004.
This is a Trumpeter Kit,I bought on line for $1.99cents,yes cheap,and that's what the kit reflected,Trumpeter I read took over some kits from Italeri,and this was some of their early tooling.all guide pins had to be sanded,and so many [...]
