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Steyr RSO 1/35 Das Werk

by Erik Kok on January 27, 2023 · in Armor · 7 ≡

This is the RSO from Das Werk I finished some time ago. It had been unfinished on the shelf of shame for some time as I wanted a tarp on it but I did not know how and could not find a suitable material. Eventually I made it from thin but [...]

Review: H-K Models 1/48 B-25J Mitchell

by Tom Cleaver on January 27, 2023 · in Reviews · 30 ≡

What became the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber originated in a 1938 Army Air Corps proposal for a twin-engine medium bomber. The February 1938 proposal from North American aviation was accepted and followed by the production of the NA-40 [...]

Heller 1/72 Caudron 714

by Spiros Pendedekas on January 26, 2023 · in Aviation · 30 ≡

The Caudron Renault C.710 series was one of the emerging types out of a French 1936 specification, calling for a light fighter of wooden construction that could be built rapidly in large numbers without upsetting the production of existing [...]

About tank carts, fire extinguishers ...and photographing models: two pieces of Japanese airfield equipment

by Roland Sachsenhofer on January 26, 2023 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

A statement at the beginning: when purchasing these two kits, it is not so much the fascination for the respective original that is in the foreground, but rather their modelling possibilities. Presumably, most miniatures of this Japanese [...]

IAR-80C

by Joseph Fenech on January 26, 2023 · in Uncategorized · 13 ≡

Hobbyboss 1/48. Should have been a weekend built which took a while searching for decals. In the end I used the kit decals.

P-51B in Slovak National Uprising (1/48 Tamiya P-51B)

by George R Blair Jr on January 25, 2023 · in Aviation · 39 ≡

First, a little background. In the spring of 1944, the Czech Government in exile in London and various resistance groups began to believe that the German occupation forces had been sufficiently depleted by the war on the Eastern Front that [...]

Hawker Hurricane mk.I

by Joseph Fenech on January 25, 2023 · in Aviation · 13 ≡

Airfix 1/72 early fabric winged hurricane. Kit decals.

1/48 AD-4 - Korean War Group Build.

by John Healy on January 25, 2023 · in Aviation · 34 ≡

This is the Tamiya A-1H kit backdated to a late model AD-4. The model depicts an aircraft assigned to VA-95 aboard USS Philippine Sea during 1952-53. The main things involved in backdating a Viet Nam era Skyraider to a Korean War AD-4 [...]