1/32 scale modeling
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Kansas titled P-47s
P-47D Razorback. “Kansas Tornado” 510fs 405FG Europe.
Pilot: Howard Curran Served in Europe and Korea. Debate exists regarding ace status.
Kit: Trumpeter. Generally a good kit except for the Hamilton Standard prop- [...]
KI-45 tei hei. ZoukeiMura
This is the ZoukeiMura kit SOB-except for the tail wheel. The story here is that I had built the ID vac kit years ago. I was working on the ZM kit. My 2 cats found the ZM tail wheel in the box- never to be seen again?. The very nicely done [...]
Finnish Fokker D XXI series 3
This is the Silverwings Fokker D XXI that has been modified from the original ”Dutch” layout. The Finnish manufacturer Valtion license built eighty-nine airframes following the delivery of seven template aircraft from Holland. These [...]
Review: Just landed on my front porch – Special Hobby 1/32 Westland Whirlwind
Special Hobby announced they were doing the Whirlwind in 1/32 two years ago. The kit was delayed by The Past Godawful Year, and has now been released. I've been awaiting its arrival with bated breath.
It was worth the wait.
This is without [...]
F4 Phantom Marines
I was building my second thunderbolt but got tired of sawing the resin gunbays and engine plus my razor saw broke. I had another 1/32 phantom in the stash and decided to build that. This time I tried following the paint and decal scheme as [...]
1/32 Hasegawa Focke Wulf Fw-190F-8
This is 1/32 Hasegawa Focke Wulf Fw 190F-8 with the markings of Black M – I (W.Nr 584 205) of III./SG 3 flown in Sweden May 1945.
Top surfaces are RLM 75/83 with RLM 02 patches and bottom surfaces RLM 76.
Modifications are:
-Eduard [...]
1/32 Phantom
I ordered resin gunbays for my Thunderbolt project and decided to build a phantom. The Revell 1/32 phantom I started last year had a lot of fitting problems so I put it aside. This time I tried building the Tamiya one and loved everything [...]
Sunlight Photography : N1K2-J Shiden Kai -1/32
With Spring finally here, I decided to do some outdoor photography. I rigged up a two-sided light tent on my deck. In shooting this model previously, a lot of the pre-shading mottling effect was lost in indoor lighting. In some ways, [...]
Hawker Audax. No 4 Glider Training School 1942
My Father completed primary training in Georgia, USA. Before being posted 61 OTU Rednal and thence to 243 Squadron Spitfires he spent quite a few months of 1942 towing Hotspur gliders at the No 4 Glider Training School, Kidlington (Now [...]
Brewster Buffalo Mk. 1 – 1/32nd Special Hobby
Here is my Special Hobby Brewster Buffalo Mk. 1 in 1/32nd scale. I will say a few things about this high quality short-run kit later, but first I would like to give some historical background to the subject.
The History in Brief
The [...]
