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Six-Day-War...1/48 Fouga CM.170 Magister Israeli Airforce
Built in 2015.
Kinetic kit mostly oob, nose guns and rocket pods were donoured by the AMK kit. Seatbelts were made of masking tape. The camo was done with Tamiya XF-52 Flat Earth and a mix of XF-17 Sea Blue with XF-18 Medium Blue.
For the [...]
End of War...1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109K-4, III./JG52
Newest model by my dad.
Hasegawa kit, decals from the kit, Kagero and AML, EZ Line for the antenna wire, shortened the too long legs some mm to receive a more realistic look,, plastic rods and lead wire for the brake lines, Eduard [...]
Just Another Fun Build, Citroen Traction 11CV 1/48th Tamiya
Along with my Bf-109E-3/4 I built a Citroen to go along with it. This was a nice fun little kit, I missed a few things in the build the biggest is I missed some of the very fine seam lines until I painted it. I was amazed at how small [...]
Arab-Israeli War...1/48 Avia S-199 Israeli Airforce
This is one of my dad´s oldest still existing models, built 10-15 years ago.
The old Hobbycraft/Academy kit, pimped with some Hasegawa parts and PE seatbelts.
Should Eduard really release their announced S-199, most probably gonna build a [...]
Banzai!...1/48 Nakajima Ki-84-I Hayate "Frank", Imperial Japanese Army
Also built in 2015.
Hasegawa kit (9364), added brake lines, aerials and landing gear indicators, painted with Gunze and Tamiya acrylics, Tamiya Aluminium for nmf.
The model shows the a/c of Corporal Noboru Naito, 520th Temporary [...]
Airfix (Esci) 1/48 “Blå Petter”
Hi everyone!
This is my Airfix 1/48 Saab 37 Viggen, carrying the famous "Blå Petter" scheme!
The A/C's serial number is 37432, being the 132 production JA 37, delivered to F 16 wing in 1990.
This striking scheme was chosen to [...]
1/48 Hispano Ha-1112 Buchon, Ejército del Aire
Built in 2015.
Academy boxing of the Hobbycraft kit, mostly built oob. Replaced the crappy kit canopy with a Hasegawa one, for that some putty and re-scribing was neccessary in the fuselage area behind the canopy.
Used a piece of sponge [...]
Airfix 1/48 Tiger Moth
This is my build of the Shuttleworth Tiger Moth from Airfix's 1/48 kit. It's a nice kit and well engineered, there's even an included jig for adapting the tail for the two different versions featured in the kit as one has the anti-spin [...]
1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109F-4 Ejército del Aire
Built in 2015.
Zvezda kit with decals from LF Models, painted with Gunze and Tamiya acrylics, antenna wires with EZ Line.
In 1943 the Spanish Airforce received about a dozen F-4s which were stationed partly in France and Spain. Not much [...]
First Flight – Empire of Japan
Here's the last of the four kits I finished this year - Hasegawa's lovely Mitshubishi 12 Shi experimental fighter, a.k.a. the A6M1. The kit allows you to build either of the two prototypes. I built the first and decided to model it as it [...]
