Trumpeter 1/350 USS Indenpedence LCS-2
My last of model of 2015. 🙂 It could be better, especially painting part, but I am satisfied. This is my first work with PE parts 🙂 Feel free to comment, good or bad. Thank you.
Lincoln Nitschke Military & Historical Aircraft Collection, Greenock, South Australia
This is one of those treasures you find by an accident while driving around, looking for other things. Time was never right to visit but I managed toget there in the end. Mr Nitschke opened up and explained the layout of the museum, rest [...]
Tamiya 1/48 G4M-1 Betty Bomber
I built this just cause I could. Finish is Commercial Aluminum overall, with MM enamel IJN Green and Brown for topside colours. The chipping is a fortuitous accident from removal of the masking tape. Kit is OOB with the exception of [...]
Dragon 1/35 SU-85M Rebuilt and finished for a friend
This kit was given to me to re-build as I saw fit and finish better than the owner felt he was capable. I think it came out fairly well, considering it only took three weeks. I removed all of the road wheels and tracks to facilitate [...]
Minicraft 1/72 scale Railway Gun "Leopold" or "Anzio Annie".
Swap meet discovery and built OOB. Finished with MM Enamel Panzer Grey '39-'43. Weathered with AK Interactive washes and Tamiya Weathering system. A fun exercise in grey and rust. Very long, and awkward to display and transport.
Three P-51 Mustangs. 1/72 Tamiya, 1/72 Monogram, and 1/48 Pegasus
The first three pictures are of the Tamiya 1/72 P-51D with Canadian markings, the next three are the old Monogram 1/72 P-51B with Australian markings, and lastly is the Pegasus 1/48 snap-fit kit, also with Aussie markings. The Tamiya kit [...]
Hasagawa 1/48 Macchi 202 Folgore
Here is another Italian fighter for your viewing pleasure. This one was also built strictly OOB. Sand and Spinach camo free hand airbrushed using MM Enamels, and minimal weathering using chalk pastels and the Tamiya weathering System. [...]
Academy 1/48th Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21bis Iraqi AF
1st review of the year is Academy's MiG-21 kit that was issued back in 1998. And in keeping with the early theme of Mig 21's and also a week ahead of the start of Operation Desert Storm back in Jan 1991. The Mig-21 in the Iraqi Air [...]
U.S.Navy F-14 Tomcats part1 Digital publication.
Hi all, hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year. Just before christmas I was lucky enough to win a copy of the new digital book " U.S.Navy F-14 Tomcats Part1: Atlantic Coast Squadrons. By Bert Kinzey and Art by Rock Roszak. Now [...]
All the other kids are doing it...my 2015's
Not many, just not as much energy last year. But I seem to have had a resurgence at year's close, so...Several cool new kits were released toward the second half of 2015 which helped...I would call Tamiya's Somua "kit of the [...]
