A lovely kit that went together very nicely and gave me no real issues other than the self inflicted ones.
Primed with Tamiya Neutral Grey.
Painted with.
Hataka Orange Line Gunship Grey, Grey, Light Ghost Grey, International Orange, Golden [...]
On January 7, Sag Harbor Express 1945 took off from Tacloban Airfield on Leyte piloted by 2nd Lt. Arthur Browngardt, Jr. on a low level bombing and strafing mission against Clark Field on Luzon. Over the target, it pull up to avoid an A-20 [...]
I don’t even remember why I got this little SPAD - the only WW I biplane I’ve ever built was the venerable Snoopy Sopwith Camel. But after studying it online I decided I wanted to build it as Lt. Frank Luke’s aircraft when he was [...]
I spent the weekend in Madison Wisconsin at the International Plastic Modelers Society 2024 National Convention. I brought my 1/48 Academy CH-46D Helicopter to display as well. To start off the Mad City Modelers hosted a great show. The [...]
After I started the 1/35 model I realized that there were Dragon 1/35 and 1/72 kits (exterior only) and ordered a 1/72 kit so I could add Tiger 131 to my 1/72 armor shelf and take advantage of the research on its big brother.
The Dragon [...]
Last summer our family started our vacation with two days at “Tankfest” at the Tank Museum in Bovington, UK. Our son Parker is a huge tank nut, and we enjoyed two days there. But as you can tell by the photos, Tiger 131 was a big [...]
Trimaster produced a series of 1/48 scale Luftwaffe subject kits, which had fine surface scribing and were highly detailed with metal parts and photo-etch. They were all notable kits, including this Me262 example.
Despite the fact that a [...]
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This is the latest addition to my "Good From Afar but Far From Good" collection: Monogram's AV-8A Harrier. Decals are from Furball. Napalm tanks are from true Details. Sidewinder missiles and exhaust nozzles [...]
A good representation of the naval version of the Dornier 217E armed with Hs 293 Henschel air to surface missile by Promodeler sporting RLM72 and RLM73 over RLM76 with Wellenmunster swirls.
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Been a while since I got anything finished - started a few, but only finished this !. There's been some discussion on various FB pages and other modelling sites as to the validity of the markings, and I acknowledge [...]