Happy New Year!!
Wishing all a very healthy and prosperous new year.
2023, let's hope certain things improve, wishing everyone a happy new year, my models finished in 2022, in no particular order.
All 1/72 aircraft, Kiowa's, RAN and Army - helicopter GB, UH-1H, RAAF - Vietnam GB = Italeri, PKZ-2 - Valeriy Grygorenko GB = Roden, Messerschmitt Bf 109 G2, RAAF = Italeri, F 104G - Vikings = Hasegawa - Luftwaffe GB, Su 22-M4 = Bilek, F [...]
2022 Retrospective
I normally plan on completing one model each month, but we moved last January from our house of 30 years into a new house in a new town. These are the models built since the summer. Everyone have a great New Years. Cheers.
Last Project of 2022
I'm posting this today, on December 31st, having just finished this project last week. After seeing all the articles on what folks have built this past year, I wanted to get the article finished so I can get "credit" for a [...]
"Dude...just walk away!" An 'Alien' Diorama
Anyone who's ever seen any of the films from the 'Alien' franchise knows that the first rule of space adventuring is 'stay away from the strange leathery egg things'. Unfortunately this guy did not get that memo.
A little diorama inspired [...]
Hawker Fury (Alley Cat) 1/32 scale
Managed to finish this one yesterday, very poor light so just the one pic a the moment.
Kommodore Ludwig Franzisket
Ludwig Franzisket Born on June 26, 1917 in Düsseldorf, died on November 23, 1988 in Münster. Was a World War II fighter pilot, scoring all of his 43 victories against the Western Allies in over 500 combat missions while flying the [...]
Year In Review 2022
This wasn't one of my more productive years in terms of total output, which means I need to add a couple of years to my life expectancy if I'm going to complete my stash before I move on to a better world! I would have to mostly blame [...]
2022 builds, and a Happy New Year to all!
This year was less productive than I had hoped.
I only completed 4 kits:
A 1/72 Eduard Fokker Dr.I triplane (mine is on the right, and my adult son's is on the left) as part of our club "Fokker" build theme
The 1/48 Amusing [...]
La Poste - Part 2
History
After the successful pioneering of the African routes Latécoère turned their attention to South America and postal services there. However, changed priorities meant that the Latécoère decided to focus more on aircraft [...]
