1/48 scale modeling
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Latest effort to reduce the pile of kits through building. (Hint- if you want fewer boxes, mysterious A/M bits, and bottles of paint for your kids to bin after you're gone, save 'em the trouble by just having another completed model to [...]
My dad´s next 15th AF pony, after the Tuskegee one.
Tamiya kit with Aeromaster decals. Did some minor filling and removing to get a D-5 model. Also filled the wing panel lines, like on the original. Painted with AK Xtreme Metal Color [...]
And my dad has finished the next one.
Hobby Boss F4F-3 (late) kit with Superscale decals. The wing walkway decals came from the sparesbox. The kit and also the Superscale star decdals for the wings were to small, took suiting decals from a [...]
So, my dad has finally finished his mojo killer.
The Kitty Hawk kit looks good in the box but is no beginners kit. Many parts don´t fit good, pins don´t fit in their holes...so if you build it, dryfit everything.
Well, it didn´t turn [...]
Having made a complete mess of my first 1/48 Eduard 110G-4 I tracked down a Revell version on E Bay. This was a much easier build BUT as everyone knows the nacelles and spinners are wrong. You can see I've shaped them myself and put on the [...]
Hi all , well it's been a while since I posted anything so I thought I would share my latest completed project with you that I finished a month or so ago.
It is the quite old Airfix Sea Harrier , I'm not sure how old the mould is but it [...]
The Airplane:
The Spitfire Vb, which began appearing in squadrons in the spring of 1941, was the most-produced Spitfire sub-type. It was a modification of the Spitfire I airframe, “beefed up” with a new engine mount, to use the Merlin [...]
One of the few kits I bought and built immediately...hope you like it...