Tamiya 1/48 F-16 Aggressor Arctic Splinter
This is my Tamiya 1/48 Viper in the Arctic Splinter scheme. I used pre-cut masks from www.dnmodels.com for the paint job and custom decals from www.twobobs.net. The decals come with walkway lines in black, white and grey to make it easy to [...]
Airfix Douglas C-47 Skytrain
This is the new mold Airfix C-47A in 1/72 scale. It is a fine kit in all respects, it builds up quickly and with no surprises. The interior is perfectly adequate, very little can be seen in any case and I would advise against adding [...]
1/32 PCM Hawker Hurricane Mk.1 (Early)
This is 1/32 Pacific Coast Models Hawker Hurricane Mk.1(early) with the markings of L1909 LR-R, 56 sqn RAF North Weald, mid 1939
Cockpit modified with Warbirds seat and control stick.
The fasteners on the cowling look a little thick, so [...]
F-100F,Chase-1, X-15 program chase plane, 1/72 Italeri.
This was one of three F-100Fs utilized as Chase aircraft early on in the X-15 program at Edwards AFB. Flying Chase -1, it would take off with the NB-52 and fly formation during the climb out and cruise to the launch lake. The chase pilot [...]
Review: October 2019 Airfix Model World magazine – really useful
Was just at the LHS and picked up the October 2019 issue of Airfix Model World. They have a nice (probably sponsored) article on "100 years of Humbrol," in which Jay Blakemore describes several really good airbrushing techniques [...]
A fun kit from start to finish! Or "Orange you glad Round 2 re-pops the classics?"
What a fun kit, certainly had some challenges, the biggest being that the instructions have you install the chain and sprockets before you paint the frame. I simply did kind of what you would do on a real bike, separated the chain and [...]
T-34/85 from Academy
Greetings to all forum members.
On this occasion I wanted to show you a quick project without big aggregates. It is the T-34/85 of Academy, in 1/35.
It is a very simple kit and easy to assemble, with a very good lace pieces. The detail is [...]
Two unfinished airliners.
I ran out of time to finish these 2 airliners due to the fact that someone bought our house that was "for sale." I helped my wife, son and a grandson pack up our household items in a big moving van and drove out of our driveway [...]
PAINT TABLE
I found another good photo of my paint table out in our garage when I lived near Cortez, Colorado. It's about 2 feet square/610mm. I attach two 7500 daylight bulb lamps to it. I could set my turn table on the table that had the big 1/18th [...]
