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Silk purse from a sows ear!! SU-2 1/72

by neil foster on August 12, 2017 · in Aviation · 23 ≡

Well some of you may remember my request for help with this kit some weeks ago,but to give a quick re-cap I bought a kit second hand at a club day a couple of years ago and found in the box was also another kit ,the kit was obviously very [...]

Hasegawa F-104C

by Brad Bronov on August 11, 2017 · in Aviation · 17 ≡

Another one from the recent past. Hasegawa's F-104G with as much aftermarket stuff as I could cram into it. This was an important lesson in 'critical mass'; the idea that at some point Gewgaw A and What's-it B will eventual interfere with [...]

Hasegawa Bf-109 E1 (made from E4 kit) 1/72 “Leo Zaunbrecher”

by Andreas Fey on August 11, 2017 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

This is the Bf-109 E1"Leo Zaunbrecher" made from Hasegawas 109 E4. Uffz Zaunbrecher managed a forced landing with his machine on 12 August 1940, after an air battle with Spitfires from 615 Sqn, in a wheat field near Lewes. This [...]

Video: Sweet 1/144 Messerschmitt Bf 109F-4

by MakingModelsAgain on August 11, 2017 · in Aviation

Built for the first (pending) issue of ISM Magazine. Check (link) for details

Sopwith Camel – More or Less

by Rob Pollock on August 11, 2017 · in Aviation · 16 ≡

I've completed the empennage and lower wing of this 1:16 model. If I'd taken the photos a week ago you would have seen a real dog's dinner, but somehow it all came right. I'd mentioned previously that I probably wouldn't include images of [...]

A 38A Skyraider

by Stellan Schroeder Englund on August 11, 2017 · in Aviation · 26 ≡

This is my rendition of a Skyraider in the use of the Royal Swedish Air Force if the Sandy CSAR concept had been brought to the temperate and sub-arctic forests and mountains of the Scandinavian peninsula from the steaming jungles of [...]

Next up on the Monogram train I'm riding!

by Rob Anderson on August 10, 2017 · in Uncategorized · 12 ≡

I always like to share what I am starting in on next, so here it is. This will be my 3rd Monogram kit in a row! I picked up this original issue F-102 at Skyway Hobbies in Seattle. Great shape, molds are super clean and it was less than [...]

More fromthe Cradle of Aviation Museum

by Robert Royes on August 10, 2017 · in Aviation · 12 ≡

A variety of subjects

HobbyBoss FJ-4B Fury

by Marvin Reyes on August 10, 2017 · in Aviation · 15 ≡

I built this kit awhile ago, but haven't displayed it much, so here goes. This is the old HobbyBoss kit in 1/48th scale. It is done OOB, using parts and decals that come with the kit. I think this kit is fairly basic, but it makes up into [...]

Martin B 57B Canberra, 52-1590, The Black Knights 38th Bomb Wing USAFE Laon AFB France 1956.

by Allan J Withers on August 10, 2017 · in Aviation · 23 ≡

1/72 Airfix, I modified a few things, pilot seats narrower, removed the hinges from all control surfaces, the tail-plane joints, engine jet-pipes and replaced some antennae, finished in MM and Humbrol enamels with Future over kit and other [...]