Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Supplied from U.S.Navy stocks, these Bearcats saw combat service with the Armee de l'Air in what used to be French Indo-China from 1951. This model is the Academy kit, which came out around 2004, which is when I built it. This is [...]
Here is my recently finished model. This is 1/48 Tamiya F-84G Thunderjet with Turkish aerobatic display team markings . The first aerobatic display team in Turkish Air Force was established in 1952 using the name “National” (Milli). [...]
I finished her some time ago, but I was too lazy to show progress on In progress discussion group. It was relaxing project despite its size, only aftermarket used was Eduard masks for windows. Kit has a lot of fine details inside that can [...]
Second in (what is planned to be) a long line of F-102's, this one was built from the new Meng kit in 1/72. Basically straight from the kit, with the addition of a Master nose probe and Pavla seat.
Paint is overall Xtracolor FS17875 [...]
My first WNW! Theoretically, for the manufacture of the model may be enough for 3 nights - the first day of the assembly, in the second- painting, and the third - braces ))). Thank you guys from New Zealand for their excellent model! And [...]
Following the good reception of Martin's editorial article using some of my early Hurricane profiles and the requests for more, here is another selection, from July 1938 to late 1940.
111 Squadron was the very first squadron to get them in [...]
Found during my recent visit to RAF Cosford was this new, massive P-51D model which is now adorning the entrance hall to the museum and which I thought is worth sharing. This model was built and donated by Mr David Glen as a tribute to [...]
Finally finished this morning, Not much to tell that wasn't in the WIP blog.except for the propeller. I took Seamus's advice and used the "PropBlur" brass parts to make a mask the
airbrushed the prop on to a clear disk. The [...]
My last three models which I have just finished. Models represent Serbian aviation from ww1
The recent beautiful 1/24 Harrier builds made me dig back and think I should post my own Harrier build of a few years ago. I built this for a friend's father who flew them with the RAF (among his many other duties). I wrote this up for [...]
