I have been taking new photos of some of my old builds recently. I built this kit around 1990 and it was both my first (serious) 1/48 scale build and the first model that I painted using an airbrush.
Trimaster released their high tech, [...]
Another Heller oldie, the Morane 226. A conversion made 16 years ago already, from a MS 225 kit. A lot of job to correct some of the kit big issues, besides the conversion. The main points to be addressed are:
Fuselage width to be [...]
I did this about 2 years ago, not my best build but I enjoyed it. The tires were a mess all hardened and shrunk up. The seller had no interest in back up his sale and he was in Japan so. Really had no recourse. I found some other tires, [...]
One of the first Heller kits in the "Musée" range, issued in 1965. Quite crude and requiring a lot of corrective work to achieve a decent result. This one was done some 14y ago, before the much better kits from RS and Dora Wings [...]
The vintage Revell B-47 and P6M box-scale kits, assembled as desk models. Simple builds, I only corrected some small shape issues (on the jet nacelles of the B-47) and struggled to make some parts fit. Just to show that old kits, these are [...]
1/48 DML Fw-190A-5 “Special”
Markings for Herman Graf. Pretty much straight from the box.
1/48 DML Fw-190A-4 Jg.2
Markings for Adolph Dickfeld. Again, straight from the box with markings cobbled from different decal sheets.
1/48 Otaki [...]
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This was a build going on in the background and I thought I'd just stick it up to give my thoughts on it.
My previous experience with Dora Wings was their 1/72 Lysander which was challenging to say the least.
The fit was not [...]
Here is my vintage Revell Curtiss Hawk, upgraded and corrected. The kit is still excellent if a few easy corrections are made:
Fuselage top width (aft of the cockpit) to be increased abt 2mm with plastic strips, 1mm between the cowling [...]
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Here is one of my Morane Saulnier MS406. Hasegawa kit, updated or corrected where necessary. Cockpit mostly from a Pavla resin set, Falcon canopy. Landing flaps made from scratch. Camouflage is a mix of acrylics (Lifecolor) and enamels [...]
The Carro Armato M13/40 was an Italian World War II tank designed to replace the M11/39 in the Royal Italian Army at the start of World War II.[6] It was the primary tank used by the Italians throughout the war. The design was influenced [...]