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Desert Air Force Spitfire Mk.Vc – Eduard 1/48 Profipack

by Justin Bronk on September 3, 2022 · in Aviation · 26 ≡

This is a non-box 1943 Desert Air Force Spitfire scheme using the Mk.Vc Tropical (with Volkes air filter) optional parts from Eduard's absolutely excellent new Mk.Vc ProfiPack kit. It has the slightly awkward and unnecessarily fiddly [...]

The Martin T4M-1 and Plus Models

by Christopher Amano-Langtree on September 3, 2022 · in Aviation · 26 ≡

This article is both a review and commentary on the new Plus Models 1/72 Martin T4M-1. Previous T4M-1s have been released in resin (Ardpol 1/72) and as a vac-form (Esoteric 1/72). This is Plus Models first foray into 1/72 aircraft and to [...]

The wages of writing :-)

by Tom Cleaver on September 2, 2022 · in News · 28 ≡

So, some of you may have noticed over at the Eduard website that they have an actual historian writing their Wildcat history (with more to come). That would be yours truly, who was asked by Vlad if I would do that, and said [...]

Building a 1:50 Scale Truck Dock

by Charles King on September 2, 2022 · in Diorama · 16 ≡

I have been working on a 1/50 scale diorama for someone. It's a truck dock that will handle about 6 trucks. Docks for 4 full fledged truck and trailer and two single trucks without their trailers. Lots of fittings with bits and pieces of [...]

"Snafu": P-47D-6-RE of 78th Figher Group, 84th Fighter Squadron – Tamiya 1/48

by Tom Cleaver on September 2, 2022 · in Aviation · 17 ≡

The P-47D series entered production at Republic’s Farmingdale Long Island factory in May 1943, and the first of them showed up in England in late June. From the first, the P-47D was plumbed to carry a droppable external gas tank on the [...]

Special Hobby & Italeri 1/48 Viggen AJ, AJS 37 & SK 37E

by Rafi Ben-Shahar on September 2, 2022 · in Aviation · 18 ≡

The Viggen is a great aircraft. There are plenty of photographs including in flight that show intricate weathering patterns. Special Hobby's ex Tarangus molds captures well the lines of the aircraft. It is a short run kit that requires [...]

1/48 Zvezda Yakovlev Yak-3 Lt Col Yakimenko 1945

by Marcus Vinicius Teixeira Borges on September 1, 2022 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

An old project that had been abandoned for years,finally finished,not contest level but a nice kit...hope you like it.

Heller 1/48 Mirage 2000C

by Spiros Pendedekas on September 1, 2022 · in Aviation · 38 ≡

The origins of the Mirage 2000 could be traced back in the early 70’s when Avions Marcel Dassault-Breguet Aviation (AMD-BA) decided to develop a secondary fighter project named “Delta 1000”, as a more affordable alternative to the [...]