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Tamiya 1/48 F-4U-1 Corsair
Marine Fighting Squadron 213 (VMF-213) was formed on July 1, 1942 at Marine Corps Air Station Ewa, Hawaii and was a reserve fighter squadron in the United States Marine Corps. The squadron left Ewa on February 21, 1943 and arrived at [...]
Mig-3 Early
Trumpeter 1:48
Tamiya paints
LaGG series 7-11
ICM 1:48
Mr Hobby paints
Very poor moulding...ailerons have smushy detail and undershot!
Difficult build
Fiat Cr.42 Falco , Major Tito Falconi, CO 23rd Sqn. 1940 Sicily
1:48 Italeri
All was going quite well until the top wing had to go on. The locating 'male' nipples on the ends of the struts were ~ 0.3 mm deep, almost pointless. Combine that with struts that were probably from different kits and you get [...]
Macchi MC.200 Saetta 2a
Macchi MC.200 Saetta 2a
Italeri 1:48
Tamiya paints
Oil paint weathered
Fiat G.50bis-AS, Capt.T de Prato CO 150 Sqn. 2nd Groupo Autonomo, 1941
Flying Machines 1:48
Awful kit!
Lots of flash++
Mould step
Cowling no where near correct...should be closer to the fuselage. Not possible to move forward as the rear upper lip would have to go and it would have risen up into the path of [...]
1:48 Eduard P-51 Mustang & FW-190 Dogfight Diorama
Prior to the whole pandemic kerfuffle I had an idea to build a dogfight diorama. I purchase the two Eduard Profi-PACK kits back in 2020 and promptly put them on the shelf until the time was right. After a little research I knew the Mustang [...]
1/48 Hasegawa Ki-44-II Hei Shoki
Here are some photos of my recently completed 1/48 Hasegawa Ki-44-II Hei. First released in 1995, I think, this is the newest 1/48 scale Shoki kit available, so if you’re listening, scale model industry, it’s about time for a modern [...]
Trumpeter 1/48 Wyvern S. Mk. 4
The Aircraft:
The Second World War saw the development in naval aviation of a single-seat strike fighter concept that performed both fighter-bomber and torpedo-strike. In the U.S. Navy, this ed to the Douglas Skyraider, one of the most [...]
1/48 Airfix P-51K-5 Janet/Elva May
Airfix Mustangs are fabulous- perhaps just one small step below Eduard when it comes to surface detail but certainly less fussy to build. I originally intended to build this as "Louisiana Heatwave" but accidently installed the [...]
