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Hobbycraft 1/48 Vought F7U-3 “Cutlass”

by Spiros Pendedekas on April 13, 2020 · in Aviation · 40 ≡

Hi everyone! Here is my 1/48 F7U-3 "Cutlass", built 15 years ago. The F7U Cutlass was a United States Navy carrier-based jet fighter and fighter-bomber of the early Cold War era. It was a tailless aircraft for which aerodynamic [...]

3 Spitfires to make 1: Spitfire Mk.XIVe High-Back Conversion from Eduard and Airfix 1/48 kits

by Justin Bronk on April 13, 2020 · in Aviation · 22 ≡

As something of a Coronavirus lockdown special effort, I finally did something I've been thinking about attempting for months and which others including Tom Cleaver have done previously: A Mk.XIV high-back conversion kit bash. I built this [...]

Video: TAMIYA P-47D Thunderbolt full video build

by iModeler Youtube Picks on April 13, 2020 · in Aviation

TAMIYA 1/48 Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Highly recommended becouse it is a best kit on the market, period! (IMHO). For more details about this Tamiya kit, tools and paints from this video please visit: (link) DISCLAIMER: I am NOT! being paid [...]

Tamiya 1/32 FAA F4U-1 Birdcage Corsair

by Richard Bungay on April 13, 2020 · in Aviation · 22 ≡

The Corsair is my favourite aircraft of all time. I used to watch the show "Black Sheep Squadron" with my dad when I was a kid. The show was kind of terrible but I loved it and the vintage footage of corsairs and zeros was [...]

Koster/Monogram 1/48 XP-47J Superbolt

by Bryan W. Bernart on April 13, 2020 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

Finished early in the Lockdown, this was quick and easy for a vac conversion. The required Revell/Monogram donor was easy to locate, in this case a "razorback". Koster provides a fuselage, resin prop/hub assembly in one piece ( [...]

SWAT...1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109G-1 Fieseler-Skoda FiSk 199

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on April 13, 2020 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

After the Fw190 with the Hagelkorn gliding bomb, my dad has finished another subject of the Special Weapons And Tactics category. Hasegawa kit (limited), added Eduard seatbelts, Antenna wire with EZ Line and fishing line, yellow fuel line [...]

P-51D Mustang. Tamiya 1/48.

by S. Cubas on April 13, 2020 · in Aviation · 6 ≡

Hi all Long time out of here, but still alive. This is my latest model, a well known P-51D Mustang from 8th Air Force. This is the Tamiya kit with a horrible silver plastic. I never will build another one with this kind of plastic [...]

Spitfire and R&R Griffon: when two sounding names combine, a legend is born! Spitfire Mk.XIV from Airfix.

by Roland Sachsenhofer on April 13, 2020 · in Aviation · 9 ≡

In the course of its long career, the Spitfire has been flown with two Roll-Royce engines, whose illustrious names have become legends in connection with this aircraft itself: on the one hand, the engines of the Merlin series, and on the [...]

Boeing F/A-18C HORNET VFA-192 "Golden Dragons" 1/72

by Dusan Radisic on April 13, 2020 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

Hello to all, This is my second airbrushed model. This time I tried to do some weathering, panel lines etc...Maybe it is too much weathered for my taste, but It was too late when I realized. But hey...I learn as I go. The kit was from [...]

Revell 1/32 Heinkel he-219 uhu, 1./NJG1 1944

by Wirgiliusz Babirecki on April 13, 2020 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

Hello. This is my first 1/32 scale model. A model of a German night fighter he-219 in camouflage 1./NJG1 stationed in 1944 in Venlo, Netherlands. Hptm. Modrow flew on this machine. The pilot shot down 34 RAFu bombers on a plane of this [...]