Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
This is the Fujimi 1/72 F-86 family. I swapped the wings from the RF-86F40 'WoodPeccker' boxig with a Fujimi F-86F30 to do the 'Haymaker' FU-864 RF-86F30 USAF which was featured in the Hasegawa 1/48 boxing---Hard to find now. I used [...]
Academy model... from the box ; I use AK Real color paints
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The start of a bit of a Phantom marathon.
Primed with Tamiya Neutral Grey
Painted with:
Colourcoats Dark Green, Dark Sea Grey and Dark Gull Grey.
Mr. Color Light Aircraft Grey.
Xtreme Metals Steel, Pale Burnt Metal, Burnt Metal and Jet [...]
Finally finished! MPM 1/48th He 177. Not an easy build but ultimately worthwhile i think. I hope the forthcoming Special Hobby re-release addresses at least some of the fit issues.
There is never a shortage in Luftwaffe topics with eye catching adaptations and color schemes. Here is a Ju 88G-1 Mistel variant from Dragon. The aircraft depicted here was captured by the Americans without the piloting aircraft attached. [...]
Finally I was able to finish my entry of the Sabre/Fury groupbuild, the Academy F86 Sabre in 1/48 scale.
Last year I received this amazing gift from Spiros @fiveten when he and his wonderful family visited the Netherlands.
It was a great [...]
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This build was one of my fav, togeather with Airfix Wellington. All fits with only minor issues (main gear flaps need a little sanding in montage pins)! Very Fun Build! As usual I used aftermarket decals to make 489 RNZAF squadron, [...]
A challenging oldie model that combines considerable amount of detail and the crude Monogram mold. Eduard exterior set helped to shift the balance from the crude plastic to the fine details.
I won this kit with the extra photo-etch detail set in a club raffle a few years ago and finally got around to building it. Although it's well engineered, I found it a challenging project due partly to the complex paint job and partly to [...]
Here’s my latest build from Dora Wings, the P-47C in 1:48. It’s OOB except for Eduard belts and harness and stainless micro tubing gun barrels. I finished it with the last of my Model Master OD and used the markings of Hub Zemke’s [...]
