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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Greetings all
Hope everyone had a great Christmas.
I thought I would challenge myself and build these three 48th scale "queens of the desert" in the same time frame as the actual battle, 80 years ago , October -November 1942. I [...]
Arriving too late at the end of WWII to see any real combat, the Hawker Tempest II proved its mettle in the Far East and Middle East circa 1948. When the British left India in 1947, the bulk of the remaining RAF Tempests left behind were [...]