Grand nephew Nathan Elster, who really likes Planes of Fame Air Museum,spent his 8th birthday watching Steve Hinton fly the museum's P-38, and then he got to meet Steve. He also liked the new P-40M/Kittyhawk III restoration
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Can't help but marvel at Tom Grigat's stop-motion modeling videos at Youtube. This time he goes really tiny with 1:72 Polikarpov I-3, a fine resin kit from Small Stuff. Enjoy.
The same kit has been built recently by Pavel [...]
Here's a few pictures of one of my earlier Tiger builds. This one was built about 10 years ago. I used the available Tamiya brand individual track links for this build, since I'm not a big fan of the one piece vinyl ones that came with [...]
The Battle of Bataan (7 January 9 April 1942) was a battle that represented the most intense phase of Imperial Japan'sinvasion of the Philippines during World War II. In January 1942, forces of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy invaded [...]
Got this online awhile back, I think its been in my current stash the longest. Always liked the aircraft, built it wheels up because some of the gear pieces were broken , replaced missing wing tip missile rails ,loaded out for air to air, [...]
Most of us who build World War II aircraft, started out being interested in the ace's. Therefore most of us have cranked out a Don Gentile "Shangri-La" P-51B.
As the story goes, Don Gentile slammed his beloved aircraft into the [...]
Recently acquired this one and, since it's a hard-to-find kit I'll be building this one with some special attention to details.
While searching for a release date for this kit I discovered that it is not listed any longer on the Tamiya [...]
It's official! Everyone is invited!
I received enough interest to go ahead and start the Midway build.
I wanted to give us all a good amount of time needed for our selections, research, and building, so I started it about 5 months ahead [...]