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Two Old 1/72 Bearcats Model Kits (Frog and Monogram)

by Bob Torres on March 23, 2022 · in Aviation · 14 ≡

Here are two kits that I've been wanting to build together for a long time. Years ago, I build the Monogram Bearcat just a few years after it was released and a few years after Frog released their Bearcat, but this was a hard one to catch [...]

CSM 1/35 Minerva Armoured car

by Jon lytle on March 23, 2022 · in Automotive · 7 ≡

First Copper State kit… fit / quality was high. Went with my own color choice instead of gray, I went with a “Flanker Blue” I look forward to making more of these WW1 related kits.

1/72 Hasegawa Spitfire Mk VII

by Geoffrey Abreu on March 22, 2022 · in Aviation · 9 ≡

I just finished this 1/72 Hasegawa Spitfire Mk VII today, my first build of the year. I scratch built the rear bulkhead for the pressurized cockpit and added Eduard seat belts as well as Quickboost exhaust and a resin ventral ID light. The [...]

Revell (Matchbox) 1/32 SBD-5 Dauntless

by Spiros Pendedekas on March 22, 2022 · in Aviation · 34 ≡

Hi everyone! This is my Revell (Matchbox) 1/32 SBD-5 Dauntless, finished as a U.S. Marines bird. "Scout Bomber Douglas" (SBD) Dauntless was the US Navy's main carrier-based scout/dive bomber from mid-1940 through mid-1944. It was [...]

Cold War what if – Hughes XF-11

by Jaime Carreon on March 22, 2022 · in Uncategorized · 15 ≡

The XF-11 was a long range reconnaissance aircraft designed by Howard Hughes and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company. Power was supplied by a pair of Pratt and Whitney 4360 radial engines. Although orders were received for 100 aircraft [...]

1/72 SAAF Spitfire Vc

by Neill Roos on March 21, 2022 · in Aviation · 16 ≡

I saw this Airfix kit at the hobby shop and noticed it had South African Airforce markings, I couldn't pass up the opportunity. This is the first time I've used an airbrush, the first model I've weathered with oils and my first 1/72 [...]

SAAF Buccaneer S MK 50, 1/32 scale, Scratch Build, Part 3

by Marc Barris on March 21, 2022 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

Its been a while since I have posted, been a little busy with work and Family. This project has been a labour of love for me, and I have, once again, learned a lot, cussed a lot, sanded and shaped a lot and scratched my head . Firstly, [...]

The Starfix Challenge Pt. 1 – Silk purse from a sows ear?

by Kits And Bits Scale Modelling on March 21, 2022 · in Aviation

The Starfix BF109 E cough cough in 1/48th scale cough cough - Its not a 109 E, and its 1/55th scale! Join in to watch this strange kit take form. (link)

Blue Thunder...1/48 Suchhoi Su-22M4, Fitter-K, Vietnam People´s Airforce

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on March 21, 2022 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

Here´s one of my dad´s rare excursions to the more modern world. Hobby Boss Su-17M4 kit with Model Maker Decals. Only used the nose numbers and the airintake decals from this sheet, the national insignias were too large, at least for the [...]

1/35 Westwall bunker (1)

by Maarten on March 21, 2022 · in Diorama · 10 ≡

It has been a while , This time it is a R10 gruppenstand mit kampfraum = shelter with a fighting room. As seen on the Westwall 1944 /45 , for some the Siegfried line (allied name for it)