RIP – Les Munro – the last Dambuster
We shall not see such men again in our lifetimes.
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Challenger I, Mickey Thompson’s Bonneville beauty
Every year the F.A.S.T. club in Ocala Florida, an IPMS Chapter for car modelers, has a theme build, and this year it was anything that runs at Bonneville. This is to be my entry. It did not start out to be a two car build, but things ran [...]
Eduard 1/48 Airco DH-2
Lovely kit, built straight from the box, apart from some tensioners and anchors which I made from .05 copper wire. I managed to destroy the starboard boom, when trying to iron out a very slight bend, using a hairdryer. I had to take it [...]
U.S.Coast Guard HU-16E 1963
Well today is the US Coast Guard's 225th birthday, so I had to post something the "wing maggots" (we-who-did-not-fly's endearing term for our CG aviator brothers) would recognize. It's the last of my Monogram 1:72 scale HU-16's [...]
Planet Models 1/32 XF5U-1 Flying Pancake, circa 1947
Modifications and additions to the kit:
RB Productions seatbelts
Airscale decals.
Scratchbuilt the instrument panel (to allow the placement of the airscale decals)
Added a bar over the back of the seat to replicate the seatbelt [...]
Grumman F9F-3 Panther, Trumpeter 1/48
after many years I finally finished this model.
AIRFIX 1/72 DH 82.a Tiger Moth
My latest effort. I put in as much extra detail as the model could handle,(not mention me) and the results aren't too bad. It's actually a replica of a flying school aircraft. All of the extras are my stuff. This was a hard little kit to [...]
Painting of Handley Page 0/400s over Stonehenge Airfield circa 1918
This is a recently completed picture Of Stonehenge airfield in the first World War. Few people seem to know of the existence of this airfield, which as can be seen was very large and right next to the Stones. Local legend has it that the [...]
What happens when.................
...you have a hot June day, a vellux window, a magnifying lamp and your current project sat on the modelling bench in perfect alignment...? The model gets the full sun lamp treatment!
This model has been a bit of an episode for me, three [...]
Chieftain
Hello again. Well, here it is - my first contribution.
I'm afraid I don't know enough about tanks to provide much of a narrative here. Thanks for the guidance re the weathering... I took it pretty easy on that in the end, was just a bit [...]
