The first part of this review can be found here: (link)
Moving on with the main body of the machine, I'm now finding a few discrepancies - nothing major, but you need your wits about you.
In these photos, you can see that there are a few [...]
This is my latest build, 1/48 Hasegawa Legacy Hornet. For this project I used Eduard PE for the cockpit, twobobs decal, MAW resin for the exhaust, Gunze acrylics paint and Alclad for the exhaust. It was an enjoyable build all throughout.
MiG-15 is a very popular plane, so common for Warsaw Pact countries. Almost 18,000 were produced, but mostly MiG-15 is associating with overall silver look. I decided to break that and choose some unusual paint scheme for my model. Decals [...]
Finally finished this one - the old Tamiya kit - and it was a pleasure to build. Fit was generally very good and the cockpit and landing gear really looked the part. I added some Brengun photo etch, some miscellaneous brass pitot booms [...]
After buying a reference book about the Hurricane that had artwork for this a/c I had to try to build it. After a lot of research I found the book artwork to be very inaccurate! I finally located two grainy photos of the a/c online. With [...]
1/72 Special Hobby SB2C-5 Helldiver “The Final Version”.
The final production version of the famous Helldiver dive bomber was the SB2C-5 which was able to carry much more fuel, featured a paddle-bladed propeller without a spinner, [...]
Bell UH-1D/H Iroquois (Huey)
Scale: 1/48
Manufacturer: Kitty Hawk
Manufacturer Website: (link)
Ref.KH80154
MSRP: £37.99/$55.99
The Bell HU-1 Iroquois was developed in the 1950s for the US Army. The "HU" company development [...]