Well, I did what I could with it, I'm really not good with photo etch parts . they gave me a bit of trouble, with my shaky hands and all. As I've said before , this was an unfinished kit of my dads. He loved the DR-I, It was to him what [...]
I had various projects (the F-2 and a Turk Phantom) in various stages of drying, so decided to pull out a small WWII kit that I could also build for our contest theme in April - "Made in Japan." I had recently seen some great [...]
This was my first airbrushed jet project. I attempted a hybrid black-basing technique - when I laid down the white, I used the erratic swirl pattern, but stayed a bit clear of panel lines to end up with a sort of panel line pre-shading [...]
Our MiG Group Build is underway, and there are a lot of great builds happening right now... I have several MiG-15's that I'm about to wrap up. I built this one on a whim, and had not originally intended to do so.
This model was based off [...]
Our club started a cold war build last summer, to be revealed at our December meeting, and this is the subject I selected. It was only a few years ago I became aware of the Savage - the first carrier-born bomber capable of nuclear [...]
This model represents F/A-18A A21-8, the first Hornet to be delivered to a RAAF combat squadron.
In August 1985, 2 Operational Conversion Unit (2OCU) commenced training Hornet pilots using the first four F/A-18B two-seater Hornets to be [...]
So, a thirty year old kit, painted with thirty year old enamels and wearing twenty-five year old decals... bit of an 'old skool' project wouldn't you say ?
There honestly isn't too much to say, the kit really does fall together and is [...]
Another kit ive built some time ago but forgot to share its the sundowners version but i used cam decals set instead since death rattlers are my favorite scheme for phantoms painted with humbrol enamels and valejo air acrylics
Ps. Still a [...]
Greeting, iModelers. A week ago I road tripped down to McMinnville, Oregon with some friends to see the air and space museum. There is a modest but nevertheless impressive collection there of aircraft across the history of flight, from a [...]
THE F-100D ERA
on May 25, 1953, the Air Force’s official air demonstration team, designated the 3600th Air Demonstration Unit, was activated at Luke Air Force Base, Ariz. The unit adopted the name “Thunderbirds,” influenced in part [...]