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2022 Build Review: When Double Builds Go Bad

by Michael Smith on December 29, 2022 · in Ships · 9 ≡

2021 was such a good year. I finished 13 models – eight 1/72 aircraft, a 1/72 88mm gun, and four 1/700 Essex-class carriers, one a major kitbash. 2022, by comparison saw no models finished. Not one. Instead I started on one 1/700 [...]

SMER 1/72 P-40L Warhawk, Operation Torch

by Greg Kittinger on December 29, 2022 · in Aviation · 21 ≡

The kit had some decent recessed details, so I didn’t do much additional engraving or riveting. I did have to make a few corrections to change from a K to an L. I deleted the guns and the pitot and replaced with hollow aluminum rod. [...]

Sandtrooper riding Dewback

by Brian Mennenoh on December 29, 2022 · in Sci-fi · 17 ≡

My love of Star Wars started when I was 7. My Dad took me to the theater in Ashland, WI shortly after Episode IV - A New Hope opened. As we sat there eating popcorn the giant star destroyer entered the scene and just kept getting bigger. I [...]

Tamiya 1/48 P-47D Razorback

by Tom Bebout on December 29, 2022 · in Aviation · 18 ≡

When I discovered Norris Graser and his Thundercals company had produced some decals for the Burma Banshees P-47's I couldn't resist getting a set. The sheet depicts P-47's flown by the 89th and 90th FS along with 80th FG. Of course I [...]

Dutch Demon

by Bruce Archer on December 29, 2022 · in Uncategorized · 11 ≡

Dora Wings of Ukraine has been kitting obscure and lesser know aircraft such as the Vultee Vengeance and P-43. This kit, the Curtiss-Wright CW-21B fits that mold. It was designed by the St. Louis Division of Curtiss-Wright to be a [...]

1/48 Hawker Tempest MK.V Series 1 (Eduard)

by José Pedro Pires on December 28, 2022 · in Aviation · 24 ≡

Idealised as a response to the shortcomings of both the Typhoon and the Tornado, the Hawker Tempest made it to the drawing board circa 1941. Due to several shortcomings related to the Tempest planned powerplants, namely the Napier Sabre [...]

2022...Another prolific year by the old man

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on December 28, 2022 · in Uncategorized · 12 ≡

My dad´s now 75 and still cranks out one model after another, hope he still has some good years ahead. All aircraft models in 1/48, the F1 car in 1/20.

F-16 Mania! – ESCI 1/12th Fighting Falcon Cockpit

by Joe Roamer on December 28, 2022 · in Aviation · 15 ≡

After my Tamiya 1/48 F-16 build earlier this year, I came across this 1/12th cockpit kit on E-Bay by ESCI. Which, I've seen before, and I figured it would complement the 1/48th build on the shelf. And given my admiration for this [...]

USS ENTERPRISE NCC-1701, Star Trek Strange New Worlds version 1/2500 polar light.

by Anthony Alvear on December 28, 2022 · in Sci-fi · 10 ≡

USS Enterprise "strange new worlds", last job 2022, very nice kit, easy construction, excellent decals with aztek pattern,... metallic aluminum paint, clear red, clear blue, clear green, White, gold leaf, gunship gray...18 cm [...]