This is the Martian from George Pal's 1953 movie 'War of the Worlds'. This kit was a fairly simple build. I base coated it in Tamiya spray bomb fine grey primer. After that, the hardest part was hand painting all of the veins and [...]
The arrival of long-awaited new tool P-40B kits from Bronco and Airfix will likely spin renewed interest in the type. The attached collection of profiles demonstrates units and camouflages representative of the Tomahawk's service with the [...]
I AM DONE...I got back from the Congo about 2 weeks ago, it took me three days to get back to normal before I could wander to the work table. I had fun with this kit,it took a lot of work to make up the two seat version of this iconic [...]
Continuing on with my Tamiya 1/32 F4U-1A Jolly Rogers Corsair, wow what a kit. As others have said it is better engineered than their Mustang. Not a shake and bake, but just beautiful. So far the only extras are the Barracuda cockpit [...]
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Tom
This my first and last resin kit, I started this kit about ten years ago, After trimming the fuselage halves and finding how brittle this stuff is and a permanent warp in the fuselage, I shelved it. Since getting more active in modeling, I [...]
The kit was built OOB, without much hassle.
Even though the kit was released in 2014, I am little disappointed with the quality of the kit. At the end of the day, it is 1/72, but new tooling from Revell should have been better [...]
1/72 Italeri, my first Iroquois, I added and modified a few things, finished in MM, Humbrol and Tamiya enamels with X22 over kit and Aussie decals.
Besides wanting to add one of these beasts to my display, the "Die Cast Metal Parts Included" intrigued me. The well detailed hull, tub/suspension are cast metal, already primed. Fitting the two pieces together require some [...]