Hasegawa 1/48 Macchi C.202 Folgore
Five models of the venerable Hasegawa Macchi Folgore.
Corvette C3 customized (Revell 1:24)
I got this kit from my son. He wanted the car for his showcase.
However, I did not like the original look of the car and challenged myself to wide the body plus change box parts for 3D printed ones.
I designed and printed new rims, tyres, [...]
Trumpeter 1/24 Hurricane MkIIc
This turned out to be a very pleasant and easy build. The actual aircraft had the black very crudely brush painted with areas of the original camo showing through especially on the wings. I, however, was not prepared to try and replicate [...]
1/48th De Havilland Mosquito – The Wooden Wonder that terrified the Nazi's
10/10 would recomend to anyone. Kit review and full build here. lots of tips and tricks included!
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1/48 Vickers Wellington Mk Ic
Hello
The kit is from Trumpeter and the decals are from Techmod. The aircraft flew with 311(Czechoslovak) Squadron, England, March, 1941.
The kit is very nicely detailed, complete interior, unfortunately you can't see it at the end. The [...]
Airfix Defiant Mk.I, 1/48. 'The Daytime Daffy'
This 'Daffy' was built during a quick break during training, I didn't have anything in the stash that I thought would be a quick build so I ended up going to the only model shop left in my area and picking this guy up, and then later [...]
VT-4 Avengers
I found the above photo on Pinterest Japan. It states that White 5 is a TBF-1 Avenger of VT-4 overflying USS Ranger on 9 September 1943.
Starfighter Decals has a sheet for Operation Leader in 1/72 scale with markings for White 4 as TBM-1 [...]
1/72 Clear Prop A5M2B Claude
I wanted the enclosed canopy A5M so It was nice to see the new tooled Clear Prop kit . A very nice build. I also have the Wingsy 1/48 Version and it is really identical but larger in scale...Same tooling & nice detail. This build [...]
Bell AH 1G Huey Cobra, 122, US Army, Bien Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam 1967.
1/72 Monogram, built in 2019 - 2020 for the Teeth & Fangs GB, more pic's and details there.
Cabin Panzer 2023 rollout
Previously I posted an article about building on vacation, this year's project is ready for inspection. It's Tamiya's newest, a Panzer IV(70) A. That means a 70 something or other long 75mm gun on a panzer IV chassis made by the Alkett [...]
