1/32 F-100D
Built out of the box (before all the resin was out). I stretched the wing tanks to the proper size and added napalm from a Trumpeter 1/32F-105.
Thanks,
Rob
1/32 hasegawa A-4e
I added a seat, scribed the bird, and added shrikes from a Trumpeter F-105 (which I had to fix).
Paint is Floquil, Decals are kit.
Thanks,
Rob
1/32 Fisher F9F-8 Cougar
Built out of the box. This is a fantastic resin kit! Painted with Mr. Color, glossed using the Mr Color rattle can, and the deck is from nautilus models.
Thanks,
Rob
MiG-21
Hi all! This is my most recent build, an Academy MiG-21. It was a pretty straightforward build, with no real problems that I can think of.
Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat 1/48
The Tamiya Wildcat was a nice kit to build, clever parts breakdown and no fit problem (as with most Tamiya kits); the only extra I put in to it was some details in the cockpit. There was a lot of talk about the floor in this kit (as the [...]
Revell Starfury
Babylon 5 kind of grew on me slowly. I was not really impressed by the First season (the lead was and is a Charisma free Zone) but when they "brought in the Bruce" the show really took off.
This is the Revell Starfury (HORRIBLE [...]
Blast from the past. 1/48 Aurora Gotha GV.
I thought I'd join in the fun with an oldie from the back of the display case, built 27 years ago. Constructed from an original Aurora 1/48 Gotha G. V kit, the one with the hard brittle red plastic, only the basic airframe parts, [...]
And now for something…Completely Different
This is a 1/9 scale figure in Vinyl by Sol of Korea called Verona.
She was primed with Auto lacquer primer in pale grey then airbrushed with Model master enamels, and finally the small details painted by hand with the trusty Hairy [...]
Roden 1/48th Fokker D-VII “Udet”
This one has Copper State Models Spandaus and Aeromaster lozenge decals. The black and white striping was painted first, then the decals trimmed to fit. Tail chevron from Superscale white decal stock. A fairly straightforward build, but [...]
Paper Project in Plastic… Trumpeter 1/48 Messerschmitt Me509, JG 7, 1946
This is the Trumpeter kit of the German Proposal for the Me509, whch was drawn up to succeed the Me309 design moving the engine from the nose to midships (like the Airacobra/Kingcobra family.) and putting the cockpit where the engine had [...]
