1/48 scale modeling
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Nichimo 1/48 B5N2 Kate
The B5N "Kate" was designed by a team led by Katsuji Nakamura in response to a 1935 specification by the Navy for a torpedo bomber to replace the Yokosuka B4Y. The first prototype flew in January 1937 and was ordered into [...]
Review: 1/48 Zvezda Yak-9D
The Yakovlev Yak-9 was a development of the robust and successful Yak-7B fighter, which was based in turn on the tandem-seat advanced trainer known as the Yak-7UTI. The Yak-9 entered production in 1942 and began arriving in Soviet fighter [...]
TanModel 48th scale RF-84 Thunderflash
This is my recently completed TanModel RF-84 Thunderflash in 48th scale. Decent kit overall but there are a few fit issues that crept up in various places including the landing gear and windscreen / canopy fit.
I used Rub n Buff silver wax [...]
Old Mayan Warrior...1/48 Canadair Sabre F.4, Fuerza Aérea Hondureña
After the Cuban T-33, my dad continues with the Latin American subjects.
Airfix Canadair F4 kit with Aztec decals. The white weapons block on the left nose side isn´t provided by Aztec, made a rectangle with decal stripes. Also the nose [...]
1/48 Tamiya Ki-61 Hein
As anyone who has built this knows, it's a fabulous kit. I enhanced it with Quinta cockpit decals and Quickboost exhausts and gun barrels. National and fin markings were painted using home made stencils. The model was painted using various [...]
1/48 Ocidental Biafran AF North American T-6G Texan
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No better site to get just a glimpse of this African war:
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This kit was a junker comin around in a batch of old kits...glued and striping aluminum foil all over...misshapen parts and so on...long story cut short,managed to [...]
Accurate Miniatures 1/48 F-6A Mustang
Everyone "knows" that the Mustang was the airplane designed and built in 120 days for the British because North American's Dutch Kindelberger didn't want to build Curtiss P-40s under license, and that the first Mustangs were a [...]
Air Defence...1/48 Crusader Mk.III AA Mk.III
After Tamiya´s little Möbelwagen, now my dad built another AA tank.
Once again wonderful quarter scale Tamiya kit oob, painted with a selfmixed paint for the SCC15.
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1st Royal Tank Regiment, 22nd Armoured Brigade, [...]
