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More nostalgia flights @ Chino – F4U-1 Corsair (and a Bearcat)

by Tom Cleaver on August 14, 2013 · in Show Reports · 5 ≡

These shots were taken from the open gunner's seat of the museum's T-6 - the best photo platform possible, turned around facing aft completely out in the open. The nice pretty blue shots were taken in November 2002, a beautiful, perfect [...]

1/35 Revell Offshore Power Boat

by Joe Caputo on August 13, 2013 · in Ships · 2 ≡

This model has been around for a long time. It hasn't lost it's appeal, and still looks like it's going 100 mph standing still. I wanted mine to be a little different. I remembered a boat I'd seen, being loaded up one morning, in [...]

1/32 Tamiya P-51D Mustang LOU IV

by Tolga ULGUR on August 13, 2013 · in Aviation · 18 ≡

Here are some pictures of my last Mustang. LOU IV built mostly out of box except for Barracudacast wheels and EagleCals decals. Painting was done with Gunze Sangyo acrylics and Alclad metalizers. Happy modelling

48th Scale Hasegawa Phantom

by Jack Mugan on August 13, 2013 · in Aviation · 13 ≡

When these kits first came out I wasn't in any hurry to build one. There were too many experts on hand to point out everything you did wrong, but I did buy the kits nonetheless. Several years ago I eventually got around to building my [...]

Hobbycraft 1/48 P-59 Airacomet

by Joe Caputo on August 12, 2013 · in Uncategorized · 6 ≡

Hobbycraft has produced the only 1/48 kit of this historic aircraft, that I'm aware of. It's a nice, simple, basic kit, which I found a little pricey, considering what was included, which was not much. Still, I felt the P-59 was a [...]

Tamiya 1/48 Flakvierling 38

by Bryan W. Bernart on August 12, 2013 · in Armor · 6 ≡

A very effective and versatile weapons system, and found mounted on everything from battle cruisers to railroad cars. Normally fired in diagonal pairs, it's Mauser 20mm cannons could spit out 800 rounds per minute. Emergency mode allowed [...]

Nostalgia flights @ Chino

by Tom Cleaver on August 12, 2013 · in Show Reports · 2 ≡

Here's some photos taken with the Planes of Fame P-40N and P-51D back in 2004. A hazy southern California summer's day (but far better than back in the 1970s, when the smog was so bad in the Inland Empire I had to fly directly over Chino [...]

Revell (1/144th ?) Ekranoplan A-90 Orljonok

by Joe Caputo on August 12, 2013 · in Aviation · 4 ≡

There are a few weird models on my shelves, but this is one of the strangest. I couldn't find a scale on the instruction sheet, but it looks at home on my "1/144th & other" shelf, next to the other Soviet stuff. Not really [...]

A short film about modelling!

by Magnus Fridsell on August 12, 2013 · in How-to · 7 ≡

This one turned up at Aeroscale today, I think there is an interested audience here as well 🙂 ! (link) Best regards Magnus

Hobbycraft 1/48th Dornier Do. 17Z "Flying Pencil". Luftwaffe ETO WWII

by Chuck A. Villanueva on August 11, 2013 · in Aviation · 13 ≡

In between graduating from USC, then Navy and trying to build a Navy, I would pick up kits here and there. Not building for a few years. Still the urge was with me, but once I started to build back in the early 90's the 5th model to [...]