The British are coming.
This is another way back. The Ark Royal's Air wing was being hosted at NAS Oceana Virginia in 1975.
Paint, and more paint and some brass…….
Finally am painting the COD, the thing is huge! Not too much smaller than a 1/48 B-17, bigger than a 1/48 B-25 for sure! The last picture is how I handled the heat shields on the inboard flaps. Kinetic has some raised texture I sanded [...]
1/48 Trumpeter Mig-23
So I have to say that I think I finished the 1/48 Trumpeter Mig-23. I'm pretty happy with it. I touched up a few things, added a little Mig European soil weathering pigment and attached the missiles. This was a fun kit to build (although a [...]
Technikmuseum Speyer
In Speyer, not far from Mannheim and Heidelberg in the south western part of Germany, there is a great museum of technology, that I was unaware of until just recently.
(link)
I got the tip from my German ship modeling pals and we took the [...]
C-2 in action
Just liked to share a few photos with you all. I took these shots of the C-2 from Vultures row on board the USS Kennedy back in 1988 during a work up cruise , I was part of a reserve unit then. The C-1 was way back in the before time on [...]
1/48 Scale Monogram P-51D Mustang
Well, after over 40 years of building aircraft models, I finally got around to doing one with a natural metal finish. I have always had reservations about doing NM, as I am a brush painter, and I have always heard that you will have to use [...]
1:48 scale Hobby Boss FM-2, "Wildcat"
The Hobby Boss "Wildcats" in 1:48 scale are all pretty good models. They line up. They look right, and have a pretty fair amount of detail, even if some of it is a little overdone. Still, I found them to be fun builds. At [...]
1:48 scale, Eduard Yak-1b (Accurate Miniatures Re-pop)
I started building this model on a business trip I took last year up in Syracuse NY. It was small and fit in the luggage well.
I had built one of these kits when it was originally released by Accurate Miniatures a few years back, so I [...]
Highlights from Zeiskam
The 27th and the 28 February PMC Südpfalz,
(link)
organised its annual model show in Zeiskam, a small village in the south western part of Germany. It's a typical German modelling event, that is, clubs and individuals exhibit their [...]
1/32 Scale Westland Wessex HC.2 from Fly Models
This is my completed Westland Wessex from Fly Models, Man this is a big kit, and a enjoyment to build.
I did quite a bit of scratch building in the interior and the open avionics bay in the nose, as you will see from the first pictures I [...]
