Stinson RQ-1 XR3Q-1 RELIANT
Only one Stinson Reliant served with the US Coast Guard, being commissioned during 1935, serving until 1941. The Service used the aircraft as a flying "Radio Test" bed for long distance aerial radio communications, a novel idea [...]
Tiger in the (Deeper) Woods
About eighten months ago, I posted an article here, with photographs of an armour diorama, depicting a Konigstiger making its way through scrubby Ardennes forest in December, 1944. Also modelled - a few troops, including a hapless [...]
Tamiya's 1/48 Bristol Beaufighter Mk VII
This is the later version of the several night fighter variants with the thimble nose. The model represents an aircraft from 604 Squadron, RAF, based at Church Fenton in 1943. Built straight out of the box except for a little scratch [...]
CIAO BELLA! TRUMPETERS ROMA IN 1:350
The Roma…… Aaah……..
The last italian Battleship and one of the most beautiful battleships ever built….
Actually her history was a tragic one. She was launched one day before Italy's entry into the war and by the time she was [...]
Video: Airfix 1/72 Curtiss Hawk 81-A-2 (P-40 to you and me!)
Built for our club's combined competition group build night thingy. We're contemplating making it a 1/48 Hawk for a similar night next year. Not sure if there's a 1/144 version out there, but if there is, that'll be the year after, no [...]
Hasegawa J2M3 Raiden (Jack) 1/72
I finished this June 2014. I originally had stretched sprue ariels on it but didn't like them, so replaced with nylon thread last night. I didn't realize until I photographed it this morning that I hadn't gotten the bottom thread [...]
A Good Year for Corsairs
Here is my 32nd scale Tamiya F4U-1 Birdcage, built to depict the prototype Goodyear FG-1 built in Akron Ohio and first flown in about June of 1943.
Goodyear missed introducing the Corsair during the earlier Blue Gray and Light Gray paint [...]
F-5A-2000 "TURKISH AIR FORCE" KINETIC 1/48
This aircraft is a member of 133. squadron, 3. Main Jet Base Group Command, KONYA-TURKEY.
This is an upgraded jet training aircraft before F-16 AND F-4 Squadrons. Fuselage same with classic F-5 but cockpit and avionics mostly different. [...]
