1:32 Trumpeter P-47D “Wicked Wabbit” – Nose Art Group Build
This will be my final addition to the Nose Art Group build. Thanks again to Jaime Carreon @jetmex for heading up this GB and extending the deadline. I hadn’t planned on building my “Jug” as part of this build, but things just worked [...]
1/48 Special Hobby CA-12 Boomerang
RAAF No.4 Squadron, New Guinea, 1943. This kit in my opinion has the best OOB cockpit of any Special Hobby I ever built. I still did a little more detail in the way of wiring and a throttle quadrant I fabricated. I also added more detail [...]
On This Day...February 25th
US. Ensign Ardon Rector Ives personifies grace under pressure as he appears calm and focused unbuckling himself from an inferno engulfing his (appropriatey enough) Hellcat. of VF-9 fighter carrier group.
Ardon Ives was KIA in a dogfight [...]
Helo Finished – Finally
This is Hasegawa’s SH-3H, converted to a -3G from HC-1 Westpac cruise in 1977, aboard my old ship the USS Coral Sea.
Reference photo from that cruise.
I used Belcher’s Bits resin sponsons, shortened the horizontal tailplane, covered [...]
Snake!
Well this has to be a record for me, at least in the last couple of decades, 3 models since Christmas and ready to start another. So MPCs Don "Snake" Prudhomes' Yellow Feather 1972 Top Fuel dragster. The kit itself was, as is [...]
Me 109G-6 of Swiss AF (Zvezda 1/48)
Me 109G-6, Interlaken, Switzerland, May 1944. J-701 was one of the Me 109's bought from Germany by Swiss AF. These were produced by Mtt in Regensburg, with a lot of issues and defects due to the acts of sabotage performed at the assembly [...]
Special Hobby 1/48 Bücker Bü 181.
A nice little kit of the Bestmann trainer. A few fit issues but nothing too taxing. Shame the rear canopy has some stress cracking, but this isn't too noticeable.
