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Container Trailer

by Charles King on May 13, 2021 · in Automotive · 15 ≡

I decided to make the container trailer, from one of my diorama a single display, thus dismantling the previous one. I've attached the front loader and added a few details and re-did the trailer making the front board shorter as it was [...]

Dynavector 1/48 XA2D-1 Skyshark

by Tom Cleaver on May 13, 2021 · in Aviation · 15 ≡

Why I am not standing in line for the new kit, good as I hear it is. History By the end of the Second World War, with operational analysis demonstrating that Navy fighter squadrons had protected the carrier-based strike aircraft so well [...]

1/96 Saturn V – Revell

by Radek P. on May 12, 2021 · in Space · 18 ≡

Hi, finally finished kit from Revell in 1/96 scale. I tried my best. It is not perfect and there are small differences with original rocket but Iam ok with it. Now it will be nice piece of decoration ? Smoke is pet bottle wrapped around [...]

Speed Bomber…1/48 Messerschmitt Me262A-2a/U2 with glass nose

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on May 12, 2021 · in Aviation · 12 ≡

And my dad has finished the next 262. Hobby Boss kit, painted with AK Real Color RLM81/82/76, EZ line for antenna wires and brake lines. The kit includes decals for both prototypes. I don´t know why but HB printed the "V555" [...]

The road trip model – Stinson SR-9 Reliant, AMT 1/48

by Jaime Carreon on May 12, 2021 · in Aviation · 15 ≡

I am in Florida, having competed in the Top Gun RC meet a few weeks ago. My son lives not far away from where the meet was held, so we came to visit. It was only supposed to be for a few days, but has turned into a few weeks. It turned [...]

General Dynamics YF-16, Monogram 1/48

by Josh Patterson on May 11, 2021 · in Aviation · 17 ≡

Well, this is another kit I had in my childhood that did not get built to my expectations back then. Lofty goals, but scotch tape and rattle cans combined with heavy handed paint application (at least as a kid I didn't have to spray the [...]

A bit of nostalgia, brushes 144 [gross] ,disposable paint brush

by Robert Royes on May 11, 2021 · in Uncategorized · 5 ≡

When I started to paint my models as a kid using Pactra and Testors 1/4 ounce bottle paints, to help me out my Dad or my Mom gave me a box of 144 little brushes, the cool thing was that they were disposable, they lasted me several years [...]

Miles M.5 Sparrowhawk – my first 3D created airplane (and model kit)

by Gábor Szabó on May 11, 2021 · in Aviation · 18 ≡

Hi fellow modelers from on the third rock from the Sun. After some mostly trial and error self-education (and many many helpful advice and help from Otto Jozsa from SBS - Thanks Otto!) here's my first 3D created aeroplane and model a Miles [...]

Book Review! Grumman C-2A(R) Greyhound COD

by Rob Anderson on May 11, 2021 · in Uncategorized · 5 ≡

I never thought I would see a book dedicated to the C-2, an aircraft near and dear to my heart having flown to and from carriers aboard them and having been the Leading Chief Petty Officer for VRC-30 Det 3 Crusaders on two cruises aboard [...]

T-38A Talon ‘USAF Thunderbirds 1974 – 1981’ Hasegawa 1/72

by George Schembri on May 11, 2021 · in Aviation · 16 ≡

This is the T-38A Talon in USAF Thunderbirds dress from 1974 through 1981. The kit is Hasegawa's A17 T-38A Kit with instructions showing the kit is basically an F-5B with its leading wing edges trimmed back. The Decals used were Microscale [...]