This plane was flown by Lt. Commander Roger Hedrick- coincidentally same last name as mine- when he served as CO of VF-84 on USS Bunker Hill in 1945. Hedrick had 12 total air victories including 3 in one day. His photo is included. He [...]
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I have recently become interested in flying boats. After the great success of the PBY-5A flying boat project, I decided to build a PBM-5A. Initially, I wanted to find a model in the PBM5 version, but the Minicraft model on eBay was [...]
Greetings friends!
finished my next job. There was a bit of a rush because I wanted to finish it before the last sunny days. Otherwise, we would have to carry out the photo shoot in the spring.
Hobby Boss set, MasterBox figures.
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I finished it back in the summer, but I'm only posting it now.
The period 1991-2000 was particularly difficult in the former Soviet Union. Crime, corrupt politicians, delayed wages, closure of enterprises and many other things.
We even [...]
As announced, here´s my dad´s third of three Firefly FR.1.
Like the Thai one, Special Hobby kit, Eduard seatbelts, added a scratch rearview mirror. Used a plastic rod for the whip antenna and EZ Line for the antenna wires. Painted with a [...]
Here's my recently completed Fairey Flycatcher on wooden floats by Armory Models in 1:48. For an interesting history of this aircraft, I refer you to Tom Cleaver's article and build of his Flycatcher on this forum. This is a very nice [...]
Other than the Eduard belts and scrounged decals this is an entirely from the box build - easily as nice & fuss-free as the 1:72 Tempest I finished a few weeks back. Paint isn't straight from the Tamiya jar(s), I mixed all of them [...]
First model of some new little armour ones coming.
Suyata kit built oob, painted with a mix of Tamiya Nato Green, Field Green and RAF Dark Green.
Build thread here
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