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Eduard 1/48 Seafire F. Mk. IIc (conversion)

by Tom Cleaver on May 6, 2022 · in Aviation · 19 ≡

The Airplane: Writing in his memoir, “They Gave me a Seafire,” Commander R 'Mike' Crosley said: “It was inevitable that the FAA had to have the Seafire. It was the only fighter available that would fit into the new, low-hangar-roofed [...]

1/48 Trumpeter C-47 conversion to the Tropical Tilly R4D-5 from the 1951 movie “The Thing from another world”.

by David Kopielski on May 6, 2022 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

This build was a little different. I have always been a fan of the 1950’s and 1960’s horror and sci-fi movies. One of my favorites is the Howard Hawks 1951 movie “The Thing From Another World”. The movie is set in the arctic at an [...]

1/48 Folland Gnat T.1

by John Healy on May 6, 2022 · in Aviation · 22 ≡

This is the Airfix kit which was released in 2014. This kit features some unique engineering that I honestly thought was over complicated for such a small plane at first glance. Once I started building it, I realized the genius of it [...]

23 - 1/48 Academy Lavochkin Lav-7

by Anthony Ricco on May 6, 2022 · in Aviation · 18 ≡

This was a pretty straight forward build, went together easily enough and had no real issues. I decided to do the Aircraft of Captain Aleksei Alelyukhin. Painted red by his mechanics and flew over Berlin as it fell to the Russians to dig [...]

1/48 Tamiya Me262-1a

by dale travis on May 6, 2022 · in Aviation · 28 ≡

Aftermarket items include Quinta Studio 3D cockpit decals, Wingz slats, Hussar resin wheels and EagleCals # 138 decals. The Quinta set is fantastic, easy to use, much more so than photo etch. The model represents a 262 that operated with [...]

A colourful cat: Italeri 1/48 F7F-3P Tigercat (VMP-354)

by Marcello Rosa on May 5, 2022 · in Aviation · 19 ≡

Here are some photos of my Tigercat, completed in 2020 about the same time the news services were starting to talk a lot about a virus spreading from Wuhan. I consider the Tigercat a really good looking plane, with the combination of the [...]

Tamiya P-47D-11-RE, 1/48. 'The Razorback over Normandy'.

by Harvey R. on May 4, 2022 · in Aviation · 30 ≡

Personally, I'm a razorback fan over the bubbletop, and when I think razorback I can't help but think D-Day stripes which really narrowed down the sort of scheme I wanted to do for the build. This kit is the Tamiya's offering in 1/48, [...]

Trumpeter 1/35 German Railway Gun K5(E) Leopold

by Cooper White on May 4, 2022 · in Armor · 5 ≡

After finishing the tamiya Tiger 1 late. I decided for my next model to be a big one and the Trumpeter 1/35 German Railway Gun K5(E) Leopold is definitely a big one. With a finished size of over 3 feet ( 1 meter) and over a thousand parts [...]

HMS Sheffield D80

by Sebastijan Videc on May 4, 2022 · in Ships · 14 ≡

HMS Sheffield was a Type 42 guided missile destroyer, the first of fourteen Type 42 destroyers to enter the Royal Navy service plus two that, ironically entered Argentinian Navy. The ship was commissoned in February 1975 and spent its [...]

Tamiya 1/48 F4F-4 Wildcat

by Derek Bowen on May 4, 2022 · in Aviation · 22 ≡

This is the 4th model in my model-building career so my learning curve is still nearly vertical. I could only find one grainy photo of a plane from VF-22 (USS Independence) so this is my interpretation of the plane's paint scheme from [...]