Third time's the charm.
I started on a model of a B-25 Mitchell medium bomber - the plane used by the Doolittle Raiders in April 1942 - over 30 years ago, but never finished it. While at King's Hobby in Austin in the summer of 2015, I [...]
The aircraft depicted in this build is the Nieuport 16C serial No. A134 as allocated to Capt. Albert Ball VC.
Ball rigged the aircraft to fly tail heavy so that it would fly "hand off" whilst he reloaded the Lewis gun, he also [...]
The old Aurora classic kit, but with a new head! The head comes from Escape Hatch Hobbies, a great website full of cool monster kits. Great fun to take a nostalgic break with one of the kits I built as a kid and somehow managed to not [...]
The origins of the “G” version of the Starfighter can be traced back in 1957, when the German Air Staff issued a Paper asking for a single aircraft to fulfill its fighter, fighter-bomber and reconnaissance mission requirements. Towards [...]
This is my second of three Avenger posts.
The TBM variants of the Avenger were manufactured by the Eastern Division of General Motors during WWII. One of the external differences from the TBF (built by Grumman) was that the TBM had a [...]
The final kit awaiting replacement decals was the Lukgraph PWS-10 fighter. This is available in 3D printed form from Lukgraph of Poland. One can choose either 1/32, 1/48 or 1/72 scales with prices varying with size. Having used 3D printed [...]
Here is a pair of the Vespid Models Jagdpanzer 38(t) Hetzer (early production) kits. Some manufacturers get a whole lot of mileage from their Hetzer tools – Attack has 13 in their line-up and UM has 15, we’ll see how far Vespid goes [...]
As the custom decals I ordered arrived I was able to complete several unfinished models and this is the second one of them. The model was inspired by Spiros' (@fiveten) superb PM models Fokker D.XXI last year. It's a plane that has a [...]