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Hello everyone. I built this unusual plane for the Luftwaffe Group Build. This plane was designed from the start to break the speed record, which it did in 1939. The Me-209 held this record until 1969. As the war progressed, the [...]
It's been about 15 months since I quit smoking after 23 years of addiction. Consequently I found hard to spend hours sitting in one place assembling models, so I made a year long break from modeling. Whole this time this bird's been [...]
This video is a build review of the 1/48 scale Eduard Hawker Tempest MkII kit.
Eduard Tempest MkII Review Build web page: (link)
From the Author:
It was one of my dreams to build one of BF-109's. I decided to paint as The Yellow One from The Western Front flown by Germann Ace Major Erich (Bubi; The Black Devil) Hartmann. The model is Eduard BF-109G Profi Pack. [...]
Whew, glad to finish this one off and it did turn out nice. There were a few glitches in assembly that slowed down the line-mainly a bad mis-alignment of the tip tanks at the ends. That took a lot of work to rein in and I had to be very [...]
1/48 ZVEZDA IL-2 Shturmovik
The famous Soviet Il-2 strike aircraft was nicknamed the "flying tank" for its reliable armor, powerful armament, and direct ground troops support in battle. Its mass production began in February [...]
SAAB ja 37 Viggen 1/48 ESCI KIT
THIS model was donated ti me by My friend modeler Paolo Cattaneo as a souvenir of Him,he used the old ESCI KIT 1/48 scale.
A Neomega cockpit,the lines of the panels have been re- engraved and made other [...]
Finally got this one finished after some stops and restarts since January 2021. I used the Accurate Miniatures SDB-3 kit for two reasons, one it's the one I had in my stash, and secondly most of the changes between the -1 and -3 were [...]
The Airplane:
When Sydney Camm first designed what became the Typhoon in the late 1930s, not that much was known about high speed flight and heavy weaponry, with the result that the Typhoon’s wing turned out to be too thick. The result [...]