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Here’s my recent project, a Mitchell B-25H, one of the strafer versions. This Hasegawa kit came with damaged decals, so I opted for new ones, this time depicting the Pacific theater bird baptized “Powerhouse”, with that not so [...]
German submarine U-552 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine for service during World War II. She was laid down on 1 December 1939 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg as yard number 528, launched on 14 September 1940, and [...]
Merit 1/48 Grumman J2-5 Duck of the Air Photographic Unit Atlantic-3, 1941. Very nice build, going together better than expected. I painted the tail markings to avoid potential decal adhesion problems.
Looks great amongst my growing [...]
This is my 4th vacu-form build and an interesting subject, the Yak-17. Waku is a company from Poland which has released other vacu-form kits in the past, their Yak-17 kit was released in 1984. This kit consists of one styrene sheet with [...]
This is the third generation Mazda MX-5 which was sold 2005 – 2015.
The kit is Fujimi’s Mazdaspeed Roadster, #4633. Typical Fujimi, the kit is well designed. The kit has a fully detailed engine bay (Yay!). Fujimi even provides pre-cut [...]
Inspired by a previous post, I searched for an aircraft with call letters ‘G-A-S’ and found this P-51C with 112 Squadron RAF. There’s actually a ‘J’ required for my complete initials as I do have two middle names, always a [...]
This is the Grumman TBM-1C Avenger flown by a LTJG Rothwell from USS Petrof Bay (CVE 80). The kit is from Hasegawa, decals are from Techmod sheet 72128. No surprises from either the kit or the decals, a very enjoyable build!
Construction [...]
Although only seven examples of this extremely attractive and highly capable flying boat were built from the mid-1930s onwards, each of these flying boats, designed as “flying boat airliners”, was to have a short but all the more [...]