First, let me say that I build airplanes, so this model was way out of my wheelhouse. When Louis (@lgardner) created this group, I thought it might be fun to jump into the group with something other than my usual airplane model. I have a [...]
The Royal Aircraft Factory SE5a is a British World War I biplane fighter aircraft. It was developed at the Royal Aircraft Factory by a team consisting of Henry Folland, John Kenworthy and Major Frank Goodden. It was one of the fastest [...]
The F-86 Sabre almost didn't happen. Had the Air Force not been willing to delay the F-86 program for a year while North American undertook to study the swept wing research done by Messerschmitt during World War II, the F-86 would have [...]
Here is my last project which I have been doing for 4 years on and off. But now the U-Boote type VII C/41 project is finally finished. It became an eternal project with as much joy as frustration. I was ruining this build when I crossed [...]
Eduard's weekend edition of the Airco DH2 is a very nice kit without building complications. Although the rigging is perfuse, I found a solution to ease the rigging process. I used stiff copper wires that come out of isolation mesh of [...]
Greetings all!
Here's my summer holidays project - the Trumpeter 1/48 scale Focke-Wulf Fw-200C-4 Condor.
I started this kit with the intention of it being some light relief and a relatively quick and simple build as a nice break from the [...]
In spite of inaccuracies in shape and raised panel surface texture, Monogram's Invader is a comfortable build that retains the characteristic features of the aircraft.
The FF-1087 USS Kirk was a Knox-class anti-submarine warfare (ASW) frigate. The Knox class frigates were commissioned in 1969 but served only a brief 23 years, as improving ASW technology quickly made them obsolete. Frigates evolved from [...]