This is definitely a side project because I don't often venture into non-aircraft builds. However, I had a blast building this Phoenix. This truly is a modern kit with up-to-date engineering. I was very impressed with the engineering of [...]
Beside the recently posted Hobbycraft Bearcat my dad also built a Hobby Boss one.
Built mostly oob. Added seatbelts, used plastic rods for the whip antennas, plastic rods and lead wire for the brake lines, EZ Line for the antenna wire and [...]
This is my completed light cruiser HMS Tiger, build from the Matchbox/ Revell kit from the 1970's. The Tiger and her sister ship Blake were converted from all-gun cruisers in the 1970's into "Helicopter and Command Cruisers", to [...]
Here is a model of a Gloster Gladiator II fighter flown by Australian Ace Alan Boyd.
Alan was born in Quirindi, New South Wales, on 17 March 1916.
He was a regular RAAF officer before the war. In 1940 he served with 3 Squadron RAAF in the [...]
Going through old photos and came up with this Hasegawa kit I did over 10 years ago. It was sold to a fellow modeler or I would have taken updated photos. Model represents an aircraft piloted by Oblt. Siegfried Schell, Staffelkapitan of [...]
This one dates back to 2018 when the AFV Club offering was still pretty new. The kit is supposed to give you the option of an articulating suspension but bad engineering makes this very hard to achieve; I did not invest the time needed to [...]
Here’s my Hasegawa Saab J-35 Draken. I’ve always liked the lines of this aircraft ever since I found and built the old Revell kit when I was a kid.
A typically nice Hasegawa kit and because of the design of the aircraft, a pretty easy [...]
The Tamiya A-1H Skyraider is one of those must-build kits if you have any interest in the Vietnam War and model in 1/48th scale and an example for the collection has been on my personal radar for quite some time but I'd always managed to [...]