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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 [...]

Austrian Aces…1/48 Messerschmitt Me262A-1a, III./JG7, Major Rudolf Sinner

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on April 24, 2021 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

Another last foto session of one of my dad´s older models. This Tamiya kit was built about ten years ago, mostly oob, only added seatbelts, brake lines and antenna wires. Rudolf Sinner was born in 1915 in Austria. In the thirties he [...]