Sopwith Pup N6179 "Baby Mine"
Sopwith Pup N6179 "Baby Mine"
T C Vernon ( 1 victory) A W Carter (17 victories)
B Flight 3(N) Sqn RNAS, March to April 1917
WNW 1:32
Tamiya paints .Prop; oils over acrylic.
Infini control wires.
AIMS aero rigging
My builds for 2020. All 1/48.
And a sneak peak at my Fokker Dr1.
Happy new year everyone.
Revell Mosquito Conversion
I come not in search of praise but help! So far this conversion has gone not too badly. Various Eduard parts and aftermarket undercarriage. Grey Matter nose, without which job would be impossible. Pleased with side door and cockpit. Not [...]
A Heller of a Spitfire
When I started going to model shows with my modeling guru Archaeo Bob, prior to restarting the hobby, I picked up a lot of $5 specials from the vendor tables. Came to realize you definitely get what you pay for when it came to actually [...]
Trumpeter 1/48 De Havilland Sea Hornet NF. 21, 1952
The de Havilland Hornet/Sea Hornet used wooden construction techniques pioneered by the Mosquito. The aircraft was to conduct Royal Navy Air Service long range fighter operations against Japan. The war ended before the Hornet reached [...]
USS Olympia 1/232
The old Revell kit got a major upgrade with the Encore photo etch details. I made custom metal barrels and metal masts. The deck is custom designed, printed on a laser printer, and colored with diluted oil paint. Some minor scratch [...]
Belgian DH 9
De Havilland DH9 finally finished.
During the first war, Belgium received at least twenty DH9s from Great Britain and in 1922-23, the Sabca produced around thirty. It is one of the latter which I am giving here an interpretation, [...]
1/32 A-4s
A couple of A-4s built a while back, Hasegawa with a condor conversion applied for the Blue Tail Fly A-4c andTrumpeter was used for Lady Jessie.
Anson Johnson P-51D Racing Conversion
Cleveland, 1946, the wild west of Air Racing continued in a big way after the end of WWII. Many of the guys that raced in the 30's returned, along with a new crop of enthusiasts. The days of the high horsepower homebuilts was basically [...]
The icebreaker Krassin
The icebreaker Krassin (Russian: Красин) was built for the Imperial Russian Navy as Svyatogor. She had a long, distinguished career in rescue operations, as well as a pathfinder and explorer of the Northern Sea Route. She has been [...]
