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1/48 Tamiya A6M2-N Rufe

The Tamiya 1/48 Rufe straight out of the box except for the sewing needle pitot. Painted with Tamiya rattle cans, weathered with chalks and pastels. I flat coated the cowl with a household brand clear-flat spray and that's how it turned [...]

Persian Thunder…1/48 North American F-86F-40 “Shamshir”, Imperial Iranian Airforce

Built in 2017. From 1960 to 1961 the IIAF got in total 52 Sabres, F-25 and F-30 Blocks fitted with either 6-3 hard wings or F-40 wings. Initially they were in a nmf livery. 1965/66 they were flown to Israel and overhauled by IAI (think of [...]

Otaki 1/48 P-47D Thunderbolt

This is my Otaki 1/48 P-47D Thunderbolt that I built in 1986. This is a bit of a kit bash using Monogram's P-47D cowling and engine and Hawk's P-47D Curtiss Electric Propeller. Some details were added into the cockpit area, fuel pressure [...]

Saab Viggen 1/48 special hobby

Not another bloody Me 262 …yup its the Me 262A-1a/U4 W.Nr. 111899 flown by Major Willi Herget for JV 44, April 1945 Riem, Bavaria

Here is a Me 262A-1a/U4 W.Nr. 111899 flown by Major Willi Herget for JV 44, April 1945 Riem, Bavaria Its the old Dragon kit which still looks the job. Thos who have buil it know that the upper wing to fuselage fit is not 100% but by [...]

Howard “Ike” air racer

This little air racer was built back in the early 1990s and had never been photographed before May 20 of last year, almost a year ago today in fact. I don’t know why I had overlooked it all these years but I decided to rectify that by a [...]

Me-163 Komet

Built back around 1989, (ex-Hawk kit, first produced in 1960 I believe) my Testors version was issued in 1982. The aircraft is the well-known rocket-powered interceptor, the Me163 Komet, in 1/48 scale. This kit had only about 25 [...]

End of War...1/48 Focke-Wulf Fw190D-9, I./EKG(J) or V./EJG 2

Built over 6 years ago. Eduard kit oob, except sliding canopy from Tamiya, Gunze and Tamiya paints used, EZ line for antenna wire. Aircraft was captured by US troops in May 1945 at Pilsen airfield in Czechoslovakia. The little stylized [...]

Review: Dora Wings 1/48 Seversky P-35A

The P-35 was a military development of the Seversky SEV-3 three- seat amphibian, designed by Alexander Kartveli, Seversky's chief designer and was the first aircraft produced by Alexander P. de Seversky's airplane company. The SEV-3 flew [...]

Power Egg...1/48 Messerschmitt Me163B V41 "Red Baron"

Built in 2016. Dragon kit with kit decals and additional ones from Revell and Testors, the RLM red was a selfmix. The model shows an a/c of Erprobungskommando 16 at Bad Zwischenahn in May 1944. This aircraft made the first operational [...]