1/32 scale modeling
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1/32 Tamiya A6M3 Type 22 converted from A6M5 Type 52
I've always loved the late model Zero with the long cowl, but at the same time thought the camo's were kinda boring. Got my hands on Tamiya's great A6M5 kit and decided to convert it to the A6M3 Type 22 flow by Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, Japan's [...]
Hasegawa's new 1/32 N1K2-J Shiden-Kai
There's a more complete review today at Modeling Madness, but here are all the photos I took , which won't be all published there. But do check out the review:
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Basically, this is the really nice 1/48 kit from 13 years ago, scaled [...]
Northrop F-5E Tiger II Sharknose Swiss Air Force
Northrop F-5E Tiger II Sharknose of 11 Squadron of the Swiss Air Force, Dübendorf / Switzerland, December 1992
Kit Revell 1:32 1993
Riverside Scale Modellers club group build, 2013.
Every year the scale model club, Riverside Scale Modellers that I joined in August this year has a club group build, after some discussion a subject is chosen and providing that a kit valued at no more than $10 to $12 AU is available in [...]
Doggy-Style!
Several people, when commenting upon my recently completed 1/32 Spitfire Mk.II, said that the pilot figure looks lonely and needs a dog to keep him company. These people were preaching to the choir, though. From the start, I wanted my [...]
Wingnut Wings Fokker E.III Eindecker
Here are some pics of my Wingnut Wings Fokker E.III. This was built out of the box except for the seatbelts (HGW Laser Cut) and Rigging (Gaspatch turnbuckles). Since the early engines, especially the rotaries, spewed oil all over the [...]
Wingnut Wings 1/32 Gotha G.IV
Here are some images of my Wingnut Wings Gotha G.IV. Despite its size (almost 30 inch wing span) and complexity, this kit goes together amazingly well. It has to be the best engineered model I've built. It is built mostly out of the box; [...]
HK Models 1/32 B-17G – the Big one!
So far so good - but time consuming to pick out all those parts and paint individually. Hopefully some of the work is seen after I close up the fuselage!
SDB-3 Dauntless ‘Battle of Midway’
I was reading Tom's terrific article from November 11 (here in Britain, Armistice Day, first designated to honour the dead of the Great War), and another great battle of the Pacific theatre in WW2 came to mind - Midway.
It's always been [...]
Good idea, Tom, for the USMC’s birthday…
what better representative than the defenders of Wake Island. An epic defense if there ever was one, Wake's Marines were the only ones to successfully repel an island invasion. A big part was the fierce attacks of the island's few F4F [...]
