Dora Wings 1/48 Vultee Vengeance Mk. II
The V-72 Vengeance dive-bomber was developed independently by Vultee Aircraft Co. for France. A French purchasing commission led by Col Paul Jacquin contracted with Vultee, based on their experience with the V-11 family of attack bombers. [...]
USS Gearing, Dragon 1/350
Here is my build of Dragon's USS Gearing, lead ship of the US Navy's ultimate WWII destroyer class. This is the excellent kit from Dragon, which comes with extensive photoetch (but, surprisingly, no railing!). Built it out of the box apart [...]
Tamiya 1/48 FB.VI Mosquito, 464 Squadron (RAAF) 2TAF, RAF Thorney Island – October 1944
G'day all.
This is the ubiquitous 1/48 Tamiya FB.VI Mosquito built as a 464 Squadron (RAAF) aircraft flown by F/O Jack Palmer and his navigator F/O Jack Rayner operating out of RAF Thorney Island while attached to 2TAF in October 1944. [...]
M109A1 155mm Self Propelled Howitzer
This is my newest model. The M109A1 SP gun. The M109 is America’s most prominent legacy self propelled gun since the 1960s, following the M110 203mm self propelled gun in 203mm. The M109 has been a standard SP Howitzer in many NATO [...]
Roden 1/72 Gotha G.V.
This is my third build of the venerable Roden Gotha. Released 20 years ago, it retains its charm in terms of the right scale for a build of the type and of course, the large surface areas covered by the colorful lozenge camouflage.
The [...]
MPM 1/72 A-17A Ground Attack Aircraft
Background:
The Northrop A-17 was developed from the Gamma 2F cargo aircraft. It was built in 1935 to meet an Army requirement for a ground attack aircraft, and entered service in 1936. In WW2, it was used by the USAAF exclusively as a [...]
USAF reference photos
Please see the links for several reference photos I took at the National United States Air-force Museum a few months ago:
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Cheers
Gloster Gauntlet (Silver Wings kit plus AIMS bits)
Since my introductory article was my 56 Squadron Gloster Gladiator that I built a couple of years ago, I thought it a good idea to follow up with the Gloster Gauntlet which is currently on my workbench. This is the Silver Wings kit in [...]
Tamiya 1/12 Kawasaki Ninja H2 Carbon
As it was a beautiful sunny morning I wheeled out the Ninja for a photo session.
Tamiya released this kit a couple of years ago. This is their description of the bike taken from their website www. tamiya.com.
And this is how they [...]
