Flying Machines 1:48
Awful kit!
Lots of flash++
Mould step
Cowling no where near correct...should be closer to the fuselage. Not possible to move forward as the rear upper lip would have to go and it would have risen up into the path of [...]
This is one of my latest projects. This is actually the third LG-1 Canadian army Howitzer. As always all built from scratch just looking at pictures. Planning on finishing this one, within the next few days. I’m still a work in progress.
Reno Air Racing Association announced on Thursday that this year's event will be the last. The Tahoe Reno Airport Authority is ending their support for the show and no longer allowing it to be held at Reno-Stead field.
40+ years ago when [...]
Instead of buying an overpriced kit whose molds have been around since 1967.I thought maybe I could refurbish one that was hanging in the detached garage for over twenty years and had endured all those winters and summers, plus one roof [...]
Prior to the whole pandemic kerfuffle I had an idea to build a dogfight diorama. I purchase the two Eduard Profi-PACK kits back in 2020 and promptly put them on the shelf until the time was right. After a little research I knew the Mustang [...]
Here are some photos of my recently completed 1/48 Hasegawa Ki-44-II Hei. First released in 1995, I think, this is the newest 1/48 scale Shoki kit available, so if you’re listening, scale model industry, it’s about time for a modern [...]
The classic Jeep Willys from Tamiya. Fun little kit. Added the Eduard photoetch set (110 pieces), so took a little longer than expected but adds some nice detail. Many of the PE pieces go unseen. Made an antenna from a piece of toothpick [...]
The role of the RAAF Kittyhawks in the defence of Milne Bay in 1942 has been well documented elsewhere & this particular aircraft was in the thick of it with 75 Squadron. Apparently flown for the most part by Flying Officer Geoffrey [...]
The Aircraft:
The Second World War saw the development in naval aviation of a single-seat strike fighter concept that performed both fighter-bomber and torpedo-strike. In the U.S. Navy, this ed to the Douglas Skyraider, one of the most [...]
This is the second model I have built during my forced downtime due to stomach surgery. I don't normally build hypothetical planes, and I also don't like to build models with a natural metal finish (because I don't do NMF very well), but [...]