Airfix have recently produced a new tool 1/48 scale Avro Anson
My father, as a staff pilot at No. 24 Bombing, Gunnery and Navigation School based at Moffat in Southern Rhodesia flew Ansons on a daily basis
but sadly only took one [...]
FINALLY, calling this one as Fini!
Tamiya, 1:48 scale, DeHavilland Mosquito FB.Mk.VI
TH-H, “Lady Luck” on door.
418 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, based at Helmsley South, England, April 1944.
Pilot: F/L John Phillips, DFC
Nav. [...]
Having fun with this Italeri Fiat kit. I hope to finish it as well as many others have? Not sure I’ll be happy with just painting the body the usual
‘smooth’ finish: Which imho will not accurately represent the beautiful ‘rough’ [...]
Tamiya 1/72 F4U-1A Chance-Vought Corsair. Piloted by LT(jg) Doris "Chico" Freeman, VF-17 Jolly Rogers. He would claim two victories with VF-17 and an additional seven with VF-84.
Improvements include:
Quinta Studios [...]
About the Supermarine Swift
When the name Supermarine Swift is mentioned, even many a friend of aviation will find it difficult to associate the aircraft with it: unlike the name of the British manufacturer, which still has a good ring to [...]
This is my 404 (Buffalo) Squadron, RCAF, Beaufighter, as it would have appeared on the morning of D-Day.
While Coastal Command would usually have used semi-armor piercing warheads, on this day they had the 60lb warheads for Flak [...]
This build was inspired by Clint Young, who is a 3D artist professional, working with Lucasfilm. I got the go ahead, to do a 3D print of his 3D art design, called Hover Hogg. The Original image of his work can be seen on Instagram, [...]
I have been on a roll with hover vehicles since my last major 1:50 scale build. Here is one of two, anti-gravity vehicles. My version of an anti-gravity tuk-tuk taxi. A mixture of old school and sci-fi technology, with a hint of derelic [...]
A few years ago I was at a local club day admiring the work done by my fellow modelers and mooching through the boxes under the tables of models for sale (always the best bit of the day for me) when I came across the Hobbyboss Hellcat, I [...]
Hello friends,
I recently started a new subject, since my dad passed away, I decided to find the old kits that we built when I was a kid, from the end of the 70s to the end of the 80s. It's not an easy task, because there are few left, [...]