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REVELL 1:48th “MEMPHIS BELLE”

by Tony Anderton on April 26, 2021 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

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

by Jeremy Millan on April 26, 2021 · in Aviation · 12 ≡

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.

by Anthony Alvear on April 26, 2021 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

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

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on April 26, 2021 · in Armor · 8 ≡

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

by Jack Mugan on April 25, 2021 · in Automotive · 14 ≡

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

by Richard Bungay on April 25, 2021 · in Aviation · 19 ≡

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

by Ross Paton on April 25, 2021 · in Aviation · 17 ≡

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.

by Allan J Withers on April 25, 2021 · in Aviation · 34 ≡

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 [...]

Eduard Spitfire Mk.Ia, 1/48. A Pair of Kiwis over Dunkirk.

by Harvey R. on April 24, 2021 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

'the airspeed indicator read 240 mph, and I thought "this is bloody marvellous!", but then the Spitfire began to shudder and seemed as if it was going to stall. - I realised what had happened, my pitot head had been shot away, [...]

Vintage Modeling. Aichi D3A1 Val – The kit from the 80’s in a contemporary version.

by capt. R on April 24, 2021 · in Aviation · 12 ≡

The Battle of the Coral Sea was probably the first topic of the War in the Pacific that I became interested in already in elementary school. I was very interested in the randomness of actions, where the proverbial happiness of the fighting [...]