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Happy New year! Let's get started!

by Rob Anderson on January 5, 2019 · in Uncategorized · 8 ≡

So here are the first 4 kits I intend to build this year. They are all gifts from my wife and kids, who have always supported my hobby. I decided to start with the Pan Am Clipper from 2001. A simple kit, just a few pieces, but as with [...]

1/48 Hasegawa F/A-18C VMFA-323 Death Rattlers

by Eric Salazar on January 4, 2019 · in Aviation · 20 ≡

This is my first finished build for the New Year. It’s a Hasegawa Legacy hornet built, primed and painted using mixed Gunze and Tamiya Acrylics. The ordnance are from Eduard Brassin. Decals were from Twobobs. Thanks for watching.

Airfix 1/24 P-51D Mustang

by Shawn Bemo on January 4, 2019 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

This is fourth of these that I have built (1 still in stash, lol). I made first kit when I was 11 or 12. I actually painted it white. I thought the instruction book looked white, lol. I gave up on Trumpeter 1/24. I wish I would have waited [...]

Toyota GT One / Tamiya

by Goetz Ladewig on January 4, 2019 · in Automotive · 5 ≡

My new project. Trying to Imitate carbon.

Mil Mi-24D 1/48 Revell/Monogramm

by Pascal Klasen on January 4, 2019 · in Aviation · 23 ≡

The Revell/Monogram cockpit is badly researched, so due to this factI chose the Pavla aftermarket resin cockpit . An overall re-scribing was needed because the kit came from 1986 and doesn’t include any engraving. It was very easy to [...]

C-31A “Troopship”(F-27 Fokker Friendship) US Army

by Dirk Derks on January 4, 2019 · in Aviation · 14 ≡

In December of 1985, the U.S. Army Parachute Team, the Golden Knights, leased two F-27-400M Friendship aircraft from the Dutch aeronautical firm, Fokker. The two planes were to replace the team's aging fleet of YC-7A Caribou, which had [...]

On This Day…January 4th

by david leigh-smith on January 4, 2019 · in News · 26 ≡

I’ve posted several photos of soldiers and airmen with their pets and mascots, but this one seems somehow special. This photo of a GI (535th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion, 99th Infantry Division) waking up to be greeted by his pal [...]

Silent film of Albatros production for all of you WnW fans.

by Stephen W Towle on January 3, 2019 · in Aviation · 3 ≡

Youtube has another neat film short done in Germany during the Great War. Showing some very involved manufacture of Albatros aircraft...from wood stock selection to final finish. (link)

LAV-25 USMC

by Paolo Ruffato on January 3, 2019 · in Armor · 8 ≡

Hi guys, more then one year ago I posted a request of information about colors of the tank crew. Well after two years I finished the LAV-25 USMC. It's a Trumpeter model 1/72 scale. I made a little diorama with a Black Dog's vignette. Bye