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 [...]
Last time I posted a completed NASCAR build was (I think) 2017... I started this one around the same time, then lost interest in all NASCAR modelling until about two months ago when I found this and all my others during a stash clear-out. [...]
Mistel I combination comprised of a Ju 88A-4 and Bf 109F-4 aircraft. It is probably the only Mistel variant that was operational during the attacks on the Mulberry Harbor and bridges in the Eastern Front.
To build the 1/48 Mistel I used [...]
Taniya’s 1/35 Wespe “Italian front” kit. The Wespe was a Pz.Kpfw.II chassis-based howitzer with a production run of 676. My Wespe depicts a Panzergrenadier Division Großdeutschland Vehicle in Russia during summer. Painted with [...]
Whichever of the numerous stories associated with Hugo Junkers‘ amazing life and work you take in, you can be sure of one impression: whether as an Aachen professor of thermodynamics, entrepreneur, innovator in aircraft and aircraft [...]
A well designed and highly detailed kit. Yet, it is a build challenge. It seems that the intricate detailing of parts is beyond the styrene material molding abilities. For example, propeller and engine parts leave gaps in connection [...]
This is the old Glencoe kit that came out in 1989 or 1990. The WWI Group Build inspired me to pull this out of the back of the display case and have a look at it. I built it as soon as it hit the LHS shelves. It was pretty crude by [...]
Here is my latest, the 1/32 scale Air Cobra by ICM. ICM sent me this kit to build, I had never built an ICM kit before and I have to say it was great, only negative was the thin decals but other than that the molding is terrific, no flash, [...]