Boeing PT - 17 - Kaydet
Hi everyone, looking at the home page today I saw the review of this model and I said to myself why not publish it. It made me have a lot of fun and suffer nothing. Really inexpensive and very well designed. You just have to remember if [...]
1/48 Academy PBJ-1D “The Fork-Tailed Devils” of VMB-433
This was the first build of 2025 I built Academy’s 1/48 PBJ-1D (B-25D). The scheme is the “The Fork-Tailed Devils” of VMB-433 for the U.S. Marines located on Emirau Island, New Guinea 1944. I added some resin seats as well as photo [...]
WW1 Fighter Pilots. 1/32 scale
Have collected these gentlemen over the years to compliment the aircraft that they flew. I recall that quite a few are the "Blackdog" brand, not sure of the rest. You will notice that 3 are German / Austrian, Hungarian airmen, 3 [...]
Eduard 1/48 P-39N Airacobra
The model depicts an aircraft flown by Col. A.I Pokryshkin, CO 9.GIAD, Summer 1944.
Although not up to the high standards of the kits that followed this issue, Eduard's Airacobra retains the poise of the real aircraft.
Lockheed Vega DL 1A, A42-1, 3 Communications Unit RAAF, Mascot Sydney 1944.
1/72 MPM, built 02-2023 to 02-2024, check out ADF serials for the subjects history, my reference suggested overall foliage green so it's painted in MM 34092 enamel with decals from my spares folder applied with Pledge and a coat of [...]
Jagdpanther Sd.Kfz.173
The Jagdpanther has always been a popular subject with modelers and there is no shortage of kits available in all the popular scales. The latest Jagdpanther in 1/72 scale is this 2021 offering from Vespid which depicts a late production [...]
Revell BAE Hawk T1
The Revell 1/32 BAE Hawk was a straight forward build out of the box with the exception of aftermarket seats and pitot tube. I changed the kits plastic gun muzzle for brass tubing and scratch built a couple of gun sights in the cockpit. [...]
ProModeler 1/48 Messerschmitt Bf 110G-4
Another model that one cannot get enough of.
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 D-9, of Jv 44, "Rot 1" flown by Lt. Heinz "Heino" Sachsenberg, Eduard 1/48 scale.
The Doras of Jagderverband 44 led by Generalleutnant Adolf Galland were arguably the most outrageously painted aircraft of the second world war. A bright red undersurface with prominent white stripes helped to differentiate them from any [...]
