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1/48 Northrop Grumman E-2D "Delta One"

by David Kopielski on February 9, 2020 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

This is a 1/48 Northrop Grumman E-2D built as the prototype aircraft designated as Delta One. I used the 1/48 Kinetic E-2C 2000 and converted it to the E-2D. It was made for a wonderful lady who has worked on the E-2 program for many [...]

1/72 P-40N "Burma Banshee"

by David Kopielski on February 9, 2020 · in Aviation · 2 ≡

This was my last build for 2019. It is Academy’s 1/72 P-40N. My Niece got this for me Christmas 2018. I wanted to make this special. After months of planning what I wanted to do with it I decided to make it one of the Burma Banshee’s [...]

1/48 Ki-45 TORYU (Nick)

by David Kopielski on February 9, 2020 · in Aviation · 5 ≡

This is Hasegawa’s 1/48 scale Ki-45 TOYRU Japanese Heavy fighter. The kit was detailed with the CMK resin cockpit detail kit. The camouflage was all hand painted. I used the kit decals for the Manchukuo Air Corps. You can see all the [...]

MORE ZEBRA !

by Rodney J. Williams on February 9, 2020 · in Aviation

I should have put these photo's in with the story. The first photo shows a real Zebra, and the rest of the Zebra's are made in a factory. I think ! I made my instrument panel to look like one of these, but I'm not sure, however this is my [...]

1/48 F-22 Raptor

by David Kopielski on February 9, 2020 · in Aviation · 4 ≡

This is the Hasegawa 1/48 scale F-22 Raptor. I used the Ares resin cockpit detail set and the Eduard resin missiles, interior, exterior, and weapons bays photo etch sets to detail the kit. I also scratch built many of the wiring and [...]

1/350 USS Carl Vinson CVN-70

by David Kopielski on February 9, 2020 · in Ships · 5 ≡

Here is my project of the USS Carl Vinson. This represents how she was at the start of her maiden deployment on March 1, 1983. This deployment was a World Cruise starting in Norfolk Virginia and ending in San Francisco California. I [...]

Mom's 1/48 Academy P-38

by Tom Bebout on February 9, 2020 · in Aviation · 18 ≡

This build is a tribute to my late mother and is not representative of any P-38 that actually flew. However, I did steal the nose work idea from Richard Bongs' P-38. Years ago when I started building models again mom asked me if I would [...]

Do I really need another Spitfire in my collection? Oh, yes! (or: how an old dream came true)

by Roland Sachsenhofer on February 9, 2020 · in Aviation · 14 ≡

To the fortunately unasked question of whether "another Spitfire" is really necessary, I would answer: of course! One reason for this lies in the enormous range of what "Spitfire" can mean, as a Mk.I has very little in [...]

Trumpeter 1/32 A-10 Warthog

by Richard Bungay on February 9, 2020 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

This is actually a fairly easy kit to build. The main problem area is the fuselage - I had to use a lot of filler. The canopy is not accurate so I bought a vacuum-form replacement. However, I couldn't make the canopy resin parts work [...]

C-97 "ANGEL of DELIVERANCE."

by Rodney J. Williams on February 9, 2020 · in Aviation · 6 ≡

Minicraft made a very nice 1/144th scale "C-97 STRATOFREIGHTER" model, which had next to no flashing on any of the kit parts. It's an O.O.B. model and all I added to it was some small black "b-b's" in the nose, however [...]