“Blue Jay Four have you got visual contact yet?”
This is Italeri's 1/72 F-104A done up as a ADC interceptor, going after UFO's. in the 1960's.
Aside from the obvious fiction. it's a great little kit to build.
A-4G ,No.805 Sqn.RAN 1977
The kit started out as a 1/72 A-4E/F Aggressor by scale craft/esci. the kit only supplies the avionic hump on top of the fuselage, so I had use filler for the tail fillet. No stores were provided so the wing tanks came from spares, the [...]
Group Build – Water Wings
Ok here's the latest group build. This one will be dedicated to aircraft that were designed for or modified to fly from water. Here are a few ground rules:
New build
Can be any available plastic, resin or vacuform kit. Any era, any [...]
Aerospatial SA 316 Alouette 3, Grasshoppers, 300 Sqn RNLAF 1981.
1/72 Heller, with a few small modifications, finished in MM and Revell enamels with Future over kit and spare decals.
F-8J Crusader
Good afternoon from a cold and damp Middle Earth.
Well here t'is after eight months on-and-off the bench, my Hasegawa 1:48 Crusader. Now before I go-on, as I was editing the pics for size, I noticed that I've forgotten to add the IR Sensor [...]
Gauging interest – iModeler Group Build – Flying Boats and Seaplanes
The Phantom group build went pretty well and got me to thinking about starting a new one, so here it is. This one will cover flying boats and seaplanes, something we just don't seem to see enough of. There are hundreds of interesting [...]
Submarine Lifeguards now available
Eric Hammel at Pacifica Books is publishing short titles for e-books on sale at Amazon for a very nice price. This is the first of mine.
Exciting tales of derring-do!
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July Random Award winner!
Thank you to the staff at iModeler! I am the lucky recipient of this beautiful Spitfire kit. It will go to good use, I have 25 complete sets of RAAF markings for this plane. I plan on building this one as soon as I clear a couple [...]
Toyota GT-One TS020, Tamiya, 1/24
Most major manufacturers have tried to win the famous Le Mans 24 hour sports car race held annually in France. Porsche have been the most successful, but the Japanese have tried their best. Toyota so nearly won in 1998, managing second [...]
Video: FULL VIDEO BUILD E-25 Panzerjäger E-Serien by Trumpeter
“E25 Entwicklungsfahrzeug” a great kit from Trumpeter of a Porsche-designed "Panzerjäger E-Serien" project.
I got mine here online at the best price and even with a free shipping
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(I've had order delivered in 9 [...]
