The last completions of 2024, a pair of Eduard F6F-3 Hellcats. “Double Nuts” are the markings of CDR James Flatley, Commander Air Group 5 and an ace credited with six victories aboard the USS Yorktown (CV-10) during the Marcus Island [...]
Miniart's P 47D is a very good kit. It is highly detailed and has a complete textured riveting array that represents the real deal. However, parts are very delicate and the plastic is soft. This results in an added building effort in [...]
Another little airplane with more then one wing. Standard Eduard quality , new mould ,great model. If you like rigging and this type of precise work you could get much fun from these WW1 planes.
Here is my first build of 2025! The Pontiac GTO "Barn Find" for a customer in Ohio.
This is an old Monogram kit, not the best, not the worst, pretty straight forward build, this build is all about the barn find look. I imagined [...]
Four models of the magnificent Tempest fighter. The build is complicated. Yet, the details and surface textures compensate for the additional build effort.
First attempt at a battleship and first attempt at the scale. It turned out quite well, I think - they never turn out as well as we hope they might, eh ? The good thing was that I made a lot of mistakes during the building, but I also [...]
Here's a rescue from my Shelf of Doom. It's the old Italeri kit in 1:72 I bought on impulse from the bargain table about 15 years ago just because it was cheap and appealed to me. I thought about building it several times, but put it off [...]
Hasegawa 1/72 scale kit
I assembled the latest Macross kit from Hasegawa, which was released last year.
The kit is very easy to assemble and is finished with details all over the body.
Tamiya's twin seater Pfeil is even more impressive than the single seat. On the basis of photographs of captured aircraft, I removed the doors of the main undercarriages for added model dynamics.
My second build of the year is a Hasegawa TBF/TBM-1C Avenger finished as "White 305" from VT-84 on the U.S.S. Bunker Hill (CV-17) during Operation JAMBOREE, the Tokyo/Honshu Raids February 1945.
JAMBOREE was conceived as a [...]