Another in the series of Phantom Builds.
The Academy kit despite being a snap fit went together without any hassle.
My only issue was completely self inflicted as I dropped it not long after the canopy was glued down and I thought I'd [...]
Finally finished a R.S. Tuck aircraft, the Hurricane Mk.I from late 1940 with call letters DT+A V6864. I got inspiration to build one of his aircraft from reading his biography, ‘Fly for Your Life: Robert Stanford Tuck’ by Larry [...]
Kit:Italeri 1:72
Before World War II, the Do 24 was Designed by Dornierwerke and built under License in the Netherlands by Order of the Dutch Government. When the Netherlands was occupied by German Troops in1940, they encountered numerous [...]
This is the first Hawker Hunter I’ve built. It’s been in my stash of kits since 2020. A few weeks ago I decided it was time to build it.
Airfix did a great job engineering and producing this kit. It’s not an inexpensive kit, but it [...]
In 1966, at their third attempt, Ford managed to beat their bitter revivals Ferrari to win the Le Mans 24 hour sports car race, a story that doesn’t really need repeating here. However, the official results of the race are more the [...]
Hi All!
We all have a shelf of doom. How long has the oldest member of your shelf of doom been there? Well, this Novo re-pop of a Frog Canberra B(I).8 sat on mine for at least 23 years ( you need to “age” kits for a while!). Frustrated [...]
this was a fun kit fairly simple, but a ton of chrome and a lot of scraping : /
I discover that I could use Tamiya’s Metal Primer to coat the chrome parts that need to be painted, this saved stripping the chrome and it worked like a [...]
Next one fresh out of my dad´s factory.
Hasegwaw kit with Kora decals. This was Hasegawa´s first "III" version, released in 2014, kit No 7371. They took their "I/II" kit and added some resin parts like cowl, exhausts, [...]
Grumman's "cats" are all beautiful aircraft, but the lines of the fighter version of the F9F Cougar are particularly stunning. So why did I choose muck up its lines by building the photo-recon version? Well, there was just [...]
My latest build is an extensive reworking of the old 1/72 Monogram HU-16 Albatross. First issued in 1957, this kit is a true classic, and represents the later HU-16D version, with the taller vertical fin and extended wings. I remember [...]