Lordy what a project this was! The big 1/8 scale kit of the McLaren M23 as driven by James Hunt by Entex.
I have been building models professionally for about 10 years and by far this was the biggest challenge! HORRIBLE fit issues, [...]
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.
Captured [...]
Hi!
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 [...]