To start, the FW-200B never saw service with QANTAS. I started this kit a few years ago and it stalled due to paint matching problems for another What-If scheme. A month ago I took it down from the shelf of doom and its holding pattern and [...]
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Found this horrible Lindberg kit at a discount store.
I have long been fascinated by the GeeBee, and this kit was like candy to me. Could NOT resist.
I imagined it would be amusing to build this kit in a dystopian sort of Mad Max [...]
This is a short video that explains how to read a micrometer.
It is perhaps fortunate for the Royal Air Force that during the dramatic summer months of 1940 this aircraft was not available to the Luftwaffe. A range 30 per cent higher along with a significant speed and climb rate advantage over the [...]
Do you need a micrometer to build scale models. Check out this video and decide for yourself.
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Hi all,
Just a few bits to add, which will be done once I have a base for it to go on, but I'm calling this done. My second finished project for 2020. This is the Takom M46 Patton.
This build was Mirage’s 1/48 scale PZL-23B KARAS Light Bomber of the Polish Air Force. The kit itself was a limited edition that included resin accessories and a collectors coin. Mirage did a nice job on the details of this unique [...]
History
The Lancaster history deserves some reading and the internet is full of articles on that. Even the ever present Wikipedia has a nice one: (link)
Now preserved in the Museum at RAF Hendon, PO-S/R5868 or S for Sugar as it became [...]
Well its time for the next scratch build, After finishing the Mirage F1 in 32nd scale, I have decided to build another popular aircraft that served in the South African Airforce, namely the MB 326, or as its known in South Africa, the [...]