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Trumpeter Mig-3 in VVS Winter colours, 1/48
A quick build over Christmas of a Soviet VVS Mig-3 fighter in a weathered but not totally worn through winter camo scheme from a 1/48 scale Trumpeter kit. I tried out going for some more aggressive chipping effects but didn't really like [...]
My 2022 Builds.
Happy New Year to all and here are my builds for 2022.
I think I had a pretty good year, almost all were old kits. Some were repeat builds from the late 60's to the 80's and some were first time builds. I had a blast with most of my [...]
Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero 261st Kokutai - Japanese Top Gun Squadron – Hasegawa 1/48
Hi,
this is the first of the year,a home-based Zero in a squadron dedicated to training the fighter pilots of the IJNAF...some glitches here and there,but those stripes really are something!
Hope you like it.
Thank you for visiting,and all [...]
P-51B Tamiya 1/48
Picked up this kit a few months ago and being a native West Virginian, wanted to do this scheme.
Robert Punchy Powell was born Nov. 1920 in the southern WV coalfields in Wilcoe, WV. Former Golden Gloves champion, hence the [...]
A Review of 2022
This year seems it was a blur. With uncertainty with the pandemic here not here, masks no masks, economy was in disarray, gas sky high especially here in California. The year was cruising along but in April I received a note from the new [...]
Kommodore Ludwig Franzisket
Ludwig Franzisket Born on June 26, 1917 in Düsseldorf, died on November 23, 1988 in Münster. Was a World War II fighter pilot, scoring all of his 43 victories against the Western Allies in over 500 combat missions while flying the [...]
More Hawker: 1/48 Eduard Tempest II, Pakistan 1949
Arriving too late at the end of WWII to see any real combat, the Hawker Tempest II proved its mettle in the Far East and Middle East circa 1948. When the British left India in 1947, the bulk of the remaining RAF Tempests left behind were [...]
27 - 1/48 Fuji Aerospatiale Alouette III
I got this kit with the cockpit started but really like this helicopter so I wanted to do something nice and interesting. I decided to do the interesting scheme of the Malasian Air force.
Was a lot of fun masking and painting this one up. [...]
1/48th N/AW & A-10A Thunderbolt II
Models of originally single seat fighters/bombers converted to tandem seats may have more appeal. The A-10 follows the path. Hobbyboss' N/AW A-10A is a good model. The optional extended flaps and air brakes add much to the dynamics of the [...]
