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De Havilland DH.88 Comet “Grosvenor House”, 1/72 Airfix

by Hongseob CHOI on December 8, 2017 · in Aviation · 17 ≡

I'm glad to present my new build, the "Grosvenor House"! "Grosvenor House" G-ACSS, the winner of MacRobertson Race (England-to Melbourne) in 1934. Today you can find brand new SBS model's nice detailed 1/72 kit for this [...]

Landwasserschlepper

by Derek Austin on December 7, 2017 · in Armor · 12 ≡

Just finished the Hobbyboss LWS in 1/35. Very much an experiment in weathering techniques for me trying dot filters, oils and streaking to name but a few for the first time! Your commennts/critique is, therefore, welcome!

Airfix 1/72 Curtiss Tomahawk Mk.IIB

by Marek Halas on December 6, 2017 · in Aviation · 15 ≡

One of the recent "new tooling" Airfix's 1/72 starter sets, and relaxingly easy build it is! This is an out of box build that spanned two weekends but were truncated due to other project commitments & stretched across the [...]

(..yet another) Porsche - 911 GT1

by IAN JACKSON on December 6, 2017 · in Automotive · 18 ≡

Not too much to say. I bought the kit from a UK seller on eBay - because the box was worn & scuffed, it was a steal even with the postage down here to Middle Earth. It arrived on a Monday and by the Wednesday I was deep in to the build [...]

Fifty shades of gray.

by Roberto Colaianni on December 6, 2017 · in Aviation · 16 ≡

Since in the last 3 weeks, for several reason, i did not progress much with the projects I work on , I post an article about a Revell Tornado IDS, 1/48, I build a couple of years ago, for a collegue of mine, working on the real Tornado [...]

“Mrs. Virginia” P-51A

by Tom Cleaver on December 6, 2017 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

Due to a few air-to-air photos, "Mrs. Virginia" a P-51A of the 1st Air Commando Unit is well-known. The big thing with doing a model is to get the built-up exhaust staining. This is the result of leaning the engine to provide [...]

HK 1/32 DH Mosquito BMk XVI build Pt. 6

by Juan Benitez on December 6, 2017 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

Now the fun part of building, the paint and decaling! I had previously blown up a set of Tamiya color plans to 1/32, and cut frisket masks for the standard Day bomber scheme of Dark green/Ocean gray over Medium sea gray. I washed the [...]

Video: Napoleon - Battle of Austerlitz 2.12.2017 – Bitva u Slavkova

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Time for another Porsche

by George Williams on December 5, 2017 · in Automotive · 11 ≡

This is another Tamiya 1/24 kit, this time the Porsche 934 Turbo RSR. Based on the 930 Turbo road car, the 934 was developed to race in the then Group 4 racing category started in 1976. The 2993cc engine had a maximum output of 485 bhp, [...]

Kitbashed ICM TF-51D Mustang

by Tom Cleaver on December 5, 2017 · in Aviation · 3 ≡

The TF-51D was created by North American when the venerable Mustang was being given to smaller air forces whose pilots were thought to not be experienced enough to deal with the high-powered F-51D, North American built two prototypes, and [...]