Weathered Steel Garage Doors Made simple
I did this many years ago. I thought someone might find it interesting. These scratch build, steel doors were made using thin aluminum plates I bought at a hobby store, which I cut to size, with a pair of scissors. I weathered using these [...]
P-47 Thunderbolt "Little Chief"
Tamiya's 1/48 P-47 Thunderbolt build straight out of the box. I actually started this model sometime around 2001ish and had it about 95% complete around the time my daughter was born later that year. So for that and other real world [...]
A 109 that has changed sides: Bf 109 G-10 "White 45" in the midst of the "Trieste Crisis”
In October 1953, the ground, naval and air forces of Italy and Yugoslavia confronted each other in the northern Adriatic around the city of Trieste, ready to enforce their countries' interests by force of arms if necessary. Trieste had [...]
Volvo F6 Beavertail Transport
This build came about by converting and scratch building, the old Italeri Volvo F6 Fire ladder kit. I had bought this a couple of years ago at an exhibition together with other second hand kits for little or nothing. I did not know what to [...]
Bf 109 B-2 Spanish Nationalist Air force 1939 (ex JG 88/Condor Legion).
Hello everyone!
This is my first contribution to this site. It's the old 1:72 scale Heller kit.
I finished my model with Vallejo Model Air and Ventura decals as well as some old spanish Hobbycalcas from way back when I was a young boy in [...]
RAF Hawker Harts and Demons
The Hart story is a complex one with a simple beginning. The Hawker company developed a elegant modern looking biplane with the performance to seriously challenge the existing fighters the RAF was using. This aircraft expanded into a whole [...]
