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1:48th scale modelling

1/48 Hasegawa F/A-18A VX-30 Bloodhounds

My year ender build. Its another 1/48 Hasegawa F/A-18A using Fightertown Decals and using Meng’s US Ordnance for pods. Happy New Year!

Final One for 2020

My 16th and final completed kit of 2020 is this conversion of an Eduard Spitfire Mk. I to a Mk. II. I used EagleCals decals, and an Ultracast Rotol prop and Coffman starter for this easy conversion. The markings are for Bill Dunn, the [...]

Last one for 2020 – practice allows one to get closer to fewer mistakes made

Practice makes perfect? Hah! Eduard kit. Vallejo metallics. Barracuda Studios "P-51 Mustangs Part 1" decal set. 1st Lt. Arthur Cundy, 352nd Fighter Squadron, 353rd Fighter Group. On March 2, Lt Cundy shot down a Bf-109 and two [...]

Cessna O-2A Skymaster - ICM 1/48

This will likely - and unfortunately - be the last off my bench for 2020. Happily so though, I can finally put it in the display case, and pray that the landing gear doesn't collapse anymore... This kit is the new tool ICM O-2A Skymaster, [...]

My builds for 2020. All 1/48.

And a sneak peak at my Fokker Dr1. Happy new year everyone.

Trumpeter 1/48 De Havilland Sea Hornet NF. 21, 1952

The de Havilland Hornet/Sea Hornet used wooden construction techniques pioneered by the Mosquito. The aircraft was to conduct Royal Navy Air Service long range fighter operations against Japan. The war ended before the Hornet reached [...]

Fairey Firefly Mk1 1/48 Special Hobby. Korean war Group build.

This is my contribution to the Korean war group build or rather my first contribution as I may well do more , we have plenty of time after all. The kit is the Special Hobby offering , I picked this kit up some years ago for £30 at a club [...]

Black Tulip...1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109G-10 Erla, I./JG52

Eduard kit, upper wing and fuselage Balkenkreuz decals taken from a Fw190 kit because Erla G-10 had smaller ones, besides that the ones on the upper wings were in a slightly more outward position. Brake lines done with plastic rods and [...]

2020 BUILDS

My most prolific year ever; not because of the obvious but this is the first time I have built similar kits in tandem

1:48 Scale Trumpeter Savoia-Marchetti, SM-79 Sparviero (Sparrow Hawk)

This model was a build in the making of about four, maybe five years. One of those builds that was really intriguing at first, but was a constant interest loser for the rest of the time. I'd pick it up now and again, play around with [...]