1/32 scale modeling
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My model depicts F/O Richard Brooker climbing aboard 56 Squadron Hurricane P3153 at North Weald in August 1940. The kit is quite accurate though challenging to build, but I used the Brian Fawcett additions of a “dog kennel”, the area [...]
Finally got to finish this one. It’s the 1/32 Starfighter from Italeri. I build it in the Belgian Air Force color scheme with decals from Daco.
This FX65 was in service from 1964 and decommissioned in 1987. It was part of the 10th wing [...]
WNW 1:32
Tamiya paints
Gaspatch terminals on Model Kasten rigging
Proper plane turnbuckles on control cables
Prop: oils over acrylic
Copper State Models 1:32
Tamiya paints
Gaspatch terminals on Model Kasten rigging
ProperPlane prop.
A straight forward kit by Hasegawa with back engine details and separate flaps. There are relatively few parts and the joint of the main undercarriage to the wing is solid. The only problem with the kit that I found was that there are [...]
Decent kit that went together very well. Building her with wings deployed was a little bit of a pain in the hind quarters, While Trumpeter gives you the option of folded or extended wings, I think the kit is designed more to have the [...]
Wingnut Wings Sopwith Pup boasts with excellent surface detail. Yet, since it is a bi-lane from WWI it requires comprehensive wiring for control cables, engine ignition wires, and fuselage bracing wires. Wings assembly is tricky. All the [...]
A quote from Paul Kennedy's book "Engineers of Victory" should open this article: "Closing the air gap did not happen because some great person decreed it. There was a group of chiefly Canadian air engineers who in early [...]
This is the Junkers Ef-126 "Elly", a german experimental fighter in 1/32. This is the single version Argus 014 in the "what if" unknown unit late 1946 scheme. Great kit, nice decals and instructions with various [...]
ICM's Stearman is a very nice kit. Texture surface and details are excellent. The build is free of hassles and the join of wings to struts is fair. Most of the location holes for the cables are marked. Yet, being a biplane the build is [...]