I still love this box top, and built it still looks "good enough". I built one about 43 years ago,and loved it! Accurate, nope, fun...yep! That and the Tamiya 1/25 Tiger I, because sometimes you need to stop being so darned [...]
I thought that the aviation enthusiasts would like to see something I worked on last year.
I was given a set of castings for one of the desktop models produced by J. Lawson Model Makers. They sell finished examples to raise funds to help [...]
I chose this "classic" kit and legendary aircraft, because I wanted it for long long time. Of course I'd liked to start it immediately, but in last year i got some other awesome kits which I promised to finish this year. However, [...]
I often see the F4F referred to as a 'stubby little plane' or something similar, but to me the squared off angularity of it's wings and tail compliment the roundness of the fuselage nicely which I think is quite esthetically pleasing.
This [...]
Gerhard “Gerd” Barkhorn joined the Luftwaffe in 1937 and completed his pilot training in 1939. Flying combat with JG 52 through the Battle of France and the Battle of Britain in 1940, he remained scorelewss though he was shot down [...]
In retirement I've been catching up with building models of units I served on while on active duty. My latest build is a 1:16th scale model of a typical USCG 41' utility boat. Found at every Coast Guard station, the 41' UTB was state of [...]
This build was a nightmare to build - lots of rescribing, putty works, scratchbuild, riveting, but at the end I was very pleased with results.
Painted with Vallejo Acrylics, aftermarket parts: Neomega cockpit interieor, Begemot decals.
As I promised, here I bring my review of Hawkeye kit. Enjoy your build!
This is going to be a kit review only, so if you would like to know history or anything else of this aircraft, you should look somewhere else.
At first, I should say [...]
Yossarian: “Is Orr crazy?”
Doc Daneeka: “Of course he is. He has to be crazy to keep flying after all the close calls he's had.”
Yossarian: “Why can't you ground him?”
Doc Daneeka: “I can, but first he has to ask [...]
After seeing so many excellent models on this site, I have decided to add a few of my own humble efforts to this site. In the last decade kit makers have been redoing my favorite aircraft in larger scales so when Hasegawa released their [...]