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North American F-6B Mustang – Accurate Miniatures 1/48
I began this kit only a few weeks ago, and given that this was my second go at an AM Mustang, the build went fairly smoothly, but not without some hiccups.
Firstly, I built this kit out of the box, with only the addition of Eduard belts [...]
1/48 Mania Ki-27 "Nate" Empire of Japan Group Build
I took the lazy way on this and didn't post any in progress photos. I added a few extra details to the engine in the form of intakes made from brass tubing squeezed to the proper oval shape and made oil cooler support struts from sprue. [...]
An Old USA Navy Airplane
Thanks to the invention of the "net" I was able to get some quality "Life Magazine" photo's of the old airplane on a carrier deck and in flight. As a kid growing up during WW-II we all bought Life Magazine's weekly [...]
Tamiyas Skyraider- I had to switch to the reserve tank to get her home.
This was one of those builds where she ended up spending a few weeks in near solitary, staring at me from the workbench with worrying eyes as i left her unfinished and slowly gathering dust. A few days ago i looked at her sternly, flipped [...]
WIP 1/48 Tamiya F-15A 58th TFTW
Pulled out a shelf of doom project from 4 years ago, Cockpit instruments and side consoles from the Hasegawa kit. Been in the paint shop for the last few weeks. The air-superiority blue is from the Mr color paints .Today i started add [...]
Hasegawa 1/48 Nakajima Ki-27 “Nate”
Hi everyone!
This is my Nakajima Ki-27Ko, built as part of "The Empire of Japan 1919-1946" Group Build, hosted here in this site.
The Nakajima Ki-27 (九七式戦闘機, Kyūnana-shiki sentōki, or Type 97 Fighter) was the main [...]
Babs, harbinger of doom
If in Spring 1942 one of these was sighted over your base, it meant hell was coming to breakfast. The C5M2 was only made in small numbers and was used for a short time, but it was part of a deadly system. The land based Kokutais Of the [...]
F4U-1a Corsair: VF-17 - 1/48 Tamiya
This is the Tamiya 1/48 F4U-1a Corsair – an older build of mine when I first tried out Lifecolor Acrylics. These went on very smoothly but tended to clog the airbrush until I got them thinned correctly. The color differentiation [...]
1/48 Tamiya P-38F completed
Started on this last year and finally got her done. Painted with AK real colors . I used the xrtradecals from the UK. One dullcoated i used a paper towel to buff the plan to get the finish various weather tones [...]
