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British Style...Tamiya 1/48 North American P-51B Mustang 334th FS USAAF

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on January 5, 2020 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

Built in 2018. Tamiya Mustang Mk.III kit, main markings are from Kits World Decals, the rest from Aeromaster and the kit. Vallejo Metal Color Aluminium for the NMF, Gunze and Tamiya acrylics for the rest, brass wire for the whip [...]

Bandai AT-ST “Chicken Walker”

by Casey Gray on January 5, 2020 · in Sci-fi · 5 ≡

Just finished my most recent build, Bandai’s 1/48th scale AT-ST. Painted with Mission Models painted a weathered with Ammo of Mig oilbrushers. Despite knowing that Bandai plastic reacts poorly to any solvent based products I pushed my [...]

WingNut Wings RE.8 "Harry Tate"

by roger fabrocini on January 4, 2020 · in Aviation · 15 ≡

this is my 1:32 scale WingNut Wings RE.8 from the Duellist boxing. Mostly OOB with a few added details, ignition wires out of lead wire and some vent pipes for the fuel tank and of course the bracing wires and control wires out of [...]

Torpedoboot V105 – 1/400 Mirage Hobby

by Marek Targowicz on January 4, 2020 · in Ships · 5 ≡

This is my first "proper" build nearly 10 years ago after longer break from modelling. I chose 1/400 scale V106 torpedo boat kit from the Polish Mirage Hobby range. In addition I used dedicated Mirage PE set 008-40028 plus some [...]

Hobby Boss 1/48 Tornado Ids

by Ed on January 4, 2020 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

First time around here, but my builds take a long time ? one year to complete this project,? I didn't appreciate this kit, some construction issues, misinformation instructions, I had to use a lot of filler, bad fitting bad decals etc ?, [...]

Tanagra 114 Combat Wing end of August 1981…

by Giannis Asimakos on January 4, 2020 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

Tanagra, 114 Combat Wing, end of August 1981. The Mirage F1cg, No. 110 after 26 days of maintenance work, for its 1500 flight hours on its assets, was now ready for the test flight. At 11.00 am. the test pilot came and after doing the [...]

1/48 Scale F7F-Tigercat

by Rodney J. Williams on January 4, 2020 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

Sometime in the early 1990's I met up with "Pylon Dave Jone's" who lived in Oklahoma/U.S.A. Dave sent me over 500 color 3-1/2" x 5" prints. I scanned in all of the photos, including several black and white prints then [...]

Dutch Push´n´Pull...RS Models 1/48 Fokker D-XXIII

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on January 4, 2020 · in Aviation · 12 ≡

Built in 2018. A typical shortrun kit with all its disadvantages, also the plastic didn´t respond good to the plastic glue, for example the left tail boom broke off two times, after the model was painted. Gunze and Tamiya acrylics used, [...]

I managed to finish 13 in 2019...

by Richard Bungay on January 4, 2020 · in Uncategorized · 7 ≡

I'm still new here so I thought I'd share my 2019 builds - Happy New Year everyone! My Flickr model album: (link)

Trumpeter 1/350 HMCS Huron, 1944

by Richard Bungay on January 4, 2020 · in Ships · 5 ≡

I received this kit for Christmas and I managed to finish it on New Year's Eve. It was a really fun build and very straight forward. The parts required minimal cleanup which is nice since there are so many tiny pieces. The only thing I [...]