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Oleg Antonov State Aviation Museum 1/2

by Alex on September 1, 2019 · in Photo Collections · 3 ≡

I am quite often in Kiev for business trips. For once I stayed longer to visit this amazing open-air museum. Here a lot of pics with some details which could delight Soviet airplanes modelers. If you would need high-resolution pics, just [...]

Italeri Junkers 87 B-2 Stuka

by Marcin Pacyna on September 1, 2019 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

Hello, in this article I would like to show galery of my Junkers 87 B-2 Stuka. I come from Wieluń town in Poland and this town was bombarded 3 times on 1 September 1939 by these dive bombers. There were 3 seperate raid at exact times: [...]

R. A. A. F. F-4-1-lo

by Haslam Yeoman on September 1, 2019 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

Hi All, Here is my F-4-1-LO, R.A.A.F airframe A55-1. This is the Academy P-38F kit combined with the Red Roo RAAF P-38 Lightning(PR) conversion. This contains the resin nose which is a much better fit than the kit gun nose and decals for [...]

Me-109 Black 10

by Oliver D. lomeli on September 1, 2019 · in Aviation · 9 ≡

Hi, here is my 1/48 Me-109 G-6 from Revel. This model was a mash-up of two other 109s. The ammunition housing on the nose is from the Otaki 109 I built in 2018. The ruder was changed slightly from the G-10 to a G-6 ruder. The canopy is an [...]

M-113A2

by Oliver D. lomeli on September 1, 2019 · in Diorama · 4 ≡

Hi, here is my 1/35 M-113A2 from Tamiya. It was a fun build with some problems, one being that there was no interior which was quite a disappointment. the model came with two figures and a sprue full of accessories. I heard in another [...]

Polikarpov I-16

by Oliver D. lomeli on September 1, 2019 · in Aviation · 6 ≡

Hi, here is my 1/48 scale I-16 from Eduard. The kit was well made with minor fit issues on the wing roots and slightly confusing instructions. overall it was a nice kit with photo-etched seat belts and other cockpit instruments. The [...]

GasPatch’s 1/48 scale Hs123

by Paul Higgins on August 31, 2019 · in Aviation · 23 ≡

Hi, guys... my first posting here, so a little apprehensive after seeing some of the offerings already posted. Some really smart kits and a lot of work put into them as well. So, for my first foray into this website, I've posted these [...]

White glue restores old decals

by Charles Wickwire on August 31, 2019 · in How-to · 7 ≡

I purchased a 20 year old Hasegawa P-51 kit at a hobby show and discovered the decals had been probably stored in a humid environment. The decals were firmly affixed to the backing paper. Needing to use at least a few of the decals, and [...]

Dragon Ju 88 G-6: The Berlin Effect

by Pedro L. Rocha on August 30, 2019 · in Aviation · 20 ≡

By chance, or should I say, by Google app I managed to retrieve some long lost photos of the Junkers 88 nightfighter I did back in early 2013 or so. This kit had a resin nose from Quickboost in order to replicate one of the few [...]

Airfix 1/48 F-51D Mustang

by Tom Cleaver on August 30, 2019 · in Aviation · 20 ≡

The outbreak of the Korean War on June 25, 1950, found the United States less prepared to go to war than it had been on December 7, 1941. The year before, the three fighter groups in the Far East had been re-equipped with the F-80 Shooting [...]