Sunlight Photography : N1K2-J Shiden Kai -1/32
With Spring finally here, I decided to do some outdoor photography. I rigged up a two-sided light tent on my deck. In shooting this model previously, a lot of the pre-shading mottling effect was lost in indoor lighting. In some ways, [...]
REVELL 1:48th “MEMPHIS BELLE”
Thought i'd try my hand at a larger scale aircraft for a change.
So, went BIG...1:48th Scale B17 "Memphis Belle".
Kit was reasonably cheap (and i found out why) so i decided that this would be a baptism of fire and bought an [...]
1/48 Tamiya A6M3 Model 32 Hamp
I think this is my fourth build for The Empire of Japan Group. Nice kit for being so old but it does lack the detail of the newer kits. I decided to do the field applied paint scheme to change it up a bit and it was a lot of fun. Painted [...]
F-15E Strike Eagle Revell 1/48 in progress… part 3.
and we continue working.
paneling the entire plane, check.
paneling the bombs, lantrin, fuel tanks, missiles, done.
installation all the above elements, check.
What's next? ..weathering, varnish semi-opaque, finish the cockpit and start [...]
Honved...1/48 Krupp Protze with 3,7cm Pak, Hungarian Army
Next one finished. One of my dad´s excursions to the 1/48 armour world.
To avoid the usual single grey look, I searched for something different. Came across the 1/35 Bronco kit wich included a 3-tone prewar and a 3-tone Hungarian scheme. [...]
Road and Track
I built the track version from the Revell kit right out of the box. Sometime later I tackled the Tamiya kit, also out of the box. Both projects were painted with Tamiya rattle cans, with the road car done in metallic Orange. The Revell [...]
Lindberg 1/48 Brostol Bulldog
I built this kit when I was a kid and a always wanted a new tool version but since that hasn't happened, I decided to search for the old Lindberg kit on Ebay and I found one for $15. I wanted a quick build after spending the last 3-½ [...]
Hawker Audax. No 4 Glider Training School 1942
My Father completed primary training in Georgia, USA. Before being posted 61 OTU Rednal and thence to 243 Squadron Spitfires he spent quite a few months of 1942 towing Hotspur gliders at the No 4 Glider Training School, Kidlington (Now [...]
Bristol F 2b Fighter, A-7198, 1 Sqn AFC, Ramleh airfield, Palestine 1918.
1/72 Roden, built 2009 to 2019, finished in MM, Tamiya and Humbrol enamels with Pledge and Vallejo matt varnish over kit decals, pilot lt Jack Keith Curwen-Walker and Cpl Niels Peder Berg Jensen were killed when the aircraft crashed due to [...]
