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1/32 GWH P-40B Tomahawk "Turkish Air Force"

by Tolga ULGUR on February 22, 2024 · in Aviation · 16 ≡

This is my recently finished 1/32 Great Wall Hobby's P-40B with TuAF markings . These Tomahawks were Ex-RAF Tomahawks from Middle East stocks. They were re-painted in Turkey by using RAF fighter paints. Cockpit modified by using Eduard [...]

Witchcraft, The Enchanted Liberator

by Chas Bunch on February 22, 2024 · in Aviation · 50 ≡

Here’s my build of “Witchcraft”, the enchanted B-24H Liberator of the 467th Bomb Group. The kit is Monogram’s 1:48 B-24J that I picked up at a bargain table for $5.00 at a contest a few years ago. There were no decals, and someone [...]

1/48 Hasegawa P-40K-5

by Tom Bebout on February 21, 2024 · in Aviation · 17 ≡

Another P-40 from the Bebout Curtiss Factory and this one I like to call Snake on a Plane. I didn't have a Hasegawa P-40K but a did have their P-40E plus a AMTech P-40 with the Black Box resin tail. The Hasegawa P-40 K kit is as scarce as [...]

Sturmgeschütz III and Sturmhaubitze 42 in transit

by Jarmo P on February 21, 2024 · in Diorama · 7 ≡

StuG III G/StuH 42 Military Railroad Diorama, 1/35. Kits used: Takom StuG III G/StuH 42 Early (8009 2in1) Tamiya StuG III G (35310) + Voyager Model photo etched parts. Sabre Model Ommr (1+1 35A03-SVP) flatbeds. Rails (or tracks) made by [...]

1/48 Fairey Gannet AS.1/4

by John Healy on February 21, 2024 · in Aviation · 35 ≡

This is the new Airfix kit which I was fortunate to receive as a surprise for Christmas from my wonderful wife. She heard me discussing it with a friend and lamenting that it probably wouldn’t get to the US til mid 2024. She found a [...]

1/32 Lockheed P-38 Lightning Trumpeter 02227

by Erik Kok on February 21, 2024 · in Aviation · 13 ≡

At the end of last year I finished this P-38 from Trumpeter. Not a very easy kit to build. There were almost no parts that fitted together without problems. A lot of filling, sanding and repairing lost surface details. If it had not been [...]

Meng 1/35 IDF Achzarit early version

by Rafi Ben-Shahar on February 21, 2024 · in Armor · 18 ≡

The Achzarit (cruel female) is an IDF conversion of captured T-54/5s chassis to carry and protect troops in fire intense battle conditions. Meng's Achzarit is a well-designed model that captures the ungainly lines of the troop carrier. The [...]

1/72 SBD-5 Dauntless – VB-16, April 1944.

by Michael Smith on February 21, 2024 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

“White 35” was a SBD-5 assigned to VB-16 on the USS Lexington (CV-16) in April 1944. It was flown by LTJG George Blacken & RM Leo Boulanger. I used a 1996 boxing of the Hasegawa SBD-5, which came with decals for White 45 of the [...]

A Battery of cannon?

by IAN Convey on February 20, 2024 · in Armor · 14 ≡

These are model scratch built cannon that I have put together over the past 50 years using scrap brass and timber off-cuts from the workshop. They are not to scale and are not type specific, just representative of an era. Photo 1&2 is [...]

Robinson R-44 ; Kovozávody Prostějov ; 1/72

by Konrad Sołtysiak on February 20, 2024 · in Aviation · 9 ≡

Today I want to present a model of Robinson R-44 in the colors of the Czech fire department. The model +/- in the painting from the box. The left sticker with the inscription "FIRE RESCUE TEAM" is in incorrect colour in the kit - [...]