This is a 40 year old build that needed a good cleaning and it also needed to complete the painting on the fuselage and engine nacelle's sides. When I built this in 1985, I never applied the mottle paint patterns. I think I gave up on it [...]
This is my 1:48 Sword Lightning T.4 that I recently completed. 92 Sqn. based at Gutersloh Germany. A nice kit to that needs to be built with care. Not a throw it together kit by any means, but I was able to make something that sits [...]
“Metamorphosis” is the beautiful word to describe a far-reaching transformation or complex redesign. Why am I writing this here? On closer examination of the eventful history of the Boeing 307 Stratoliner, I came up with this term: it [...]
Third time's the charm.
I started on a model of a B-25 Mitchell medium bomber - the plane used by the Doolittle Raiders in April 1942 - over 30 years ago, but never finished it. While at King's Hobby in Austin in the summer of 2015, I [...]
The aircraft depicted in this build is the Nieuport 16C serial No. A134 as allocated to Capt. Albert Ball VC.
Ball rigged the aircraft to fly tail heavy so that it would fly "hand off" whilst he reloaded the Lewis gun, he also [...]
The old Aurora classic kit, but with a new head! The head comes from Escape Hatch Hobbies, a great website full of cool monster kits. Great fun to take a nostalgic break with one of the kits I built as a kid and somehow managed to not [...]