Part one focuses on the assembly of the kit and painting and weathering the tracks.
I bought this kit as soon as it was released in my local hobby store. I think this is just a fantastic model. The engineering was top notch, I can't think [...]
This is the brand new Airfix Mk. Ia/Ic kit. What a treat this one is! Packed into this 1/72 scale Wellington is a complete interior. I built the Mk. Ia version because the extensive fuselage glazing isn’t painted over. I wanted to see [...]
In 1990, I was an instructor pilot and wing staff officer assigned to Randolph AFB in San Antonio, Texas. At the time, the wing was flying T-37's and T-38's. I was on my way back from a meeting and happened to pass the wing paint shop [...]
This is an old Leopard 1/35 from Revell, I was in the house of a colleague who bought it many years ago and did not build it. One day talking about modeling he told me he had this kit and that he gave it to me. Obviously I said yes and I [...]
My last post showed images of the Airfix 1:48 Scale Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-4/B that I'd finished at the end of 2018. This was modelled along the lines of Yellow 3 in which Leutnant Horst Marx was shot down near Tunbridge Wells in the early [...]
Here's a look at what's been happening on my bench during the past twelve months. 2018 was a bit armor-heavy, appologies for that 😀
Tamiya 1/35 Crusader Mk. III
A quick fun build to test the AK Real Color line of paints. It's a re-box [...]
Hello!
In this first article I would like to introduce myself, tell where I come from and why i started my interest in scale modeling. I come from small city Wieluń in central Poland. My city can be told where Second World War has begun. [...]
On the 6th January, 1945 the USS Columbia (CL-56) was assisting in pre-invasion bombardments in Lingayen Gulf. Having narrowly missed being kit by a Japanese Zero just moments before (photo below; did that photographer have some guts...) [...]