Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
This is a Classic Airframes TA-4J, modified into a TA-4PTM, by the fitting of a Hasegawa A-4C nose cone. Also, they carried a windscreen wiper, so I added a spare one I had from a Hasegawa A-4E kit. The Classic Airframes TA-4J was released [...]
A-4PTM
Here is the Hobbycraft 1/48 A-4C, which comes with Malaysian markings, and a number of issues to be fixed! I built this as an A-4PTM (Peculiar To Malaysia) a long while back, when the kit was first issued. The A-4PTM was developed [...]
This little tug was included in I think was Hasegawa's T-34 Mentor, from forty years ago! The plane has disappeared. but the tug being unbuilt had survived.
I've been wanting to do a recon F-8 forever, but the only way was to obtain a rare conversion kit, that usually is beyond my budget. Thanks to Sword for producing this kit and the later RF-8G.I finally get to do one so late in my modeling [...]
I got this as a gift a few months back. I don't normally do German aircraft as I am scared off by the complex camo schemes but I decided to give it a go.
This was enjoyable because I was just focused on a nice result not super realism- I [...]
A couple of years ago I replaced my Airfix "Sail12" SBD-3 Dauntless (below) with a better Hasegawa kit.
Rather than leave the old kit sitting on the obsoletes shelf I repainted and redecaled it for 2-MB-1, the commander's [...]
Kinetics Tracker is a complex build of an unusual subject. The model is better built with the wings folded. Beyond the space saved in the display area, the compact model is more dynamic looking sine it reveals the underwing stores and [...]
My latest attempt at model building is this 1/48 scale Eduard FM-1 Wildcat. Of the six or so different paint schemes, I chose this one representing VC-1 stationed on the USS Block Island (CVE-21) in 1943.
On May 29, 1944, Block Island was [...]
The origins of the F-111 can be traced back to the early 60s, when both the USAF and USN were seeking their new supersonic, heavily armed, twin seat, twin engine aircraft, where Robert McNamara, then Secretary of Defense, formally directed [...]
This is my IPMS review of the ICM 1/72 OV-10D Gulf War version. This was a nice build but you can read my particulars at the IPMS USA Review:
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IT is nicely detailed but has few things to watch out for; nose weight to avoid tail [...]
