1:48th scale modelling
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Dad's Dr 1, Eduards 1/48
Well, I did what I could with it, I'm really not good with photo etch parts . they gave me a bit of trouble, with my shaky hands and all. As I've said before , this was an unfinished kit of my dads. He loved the DR-I, It was to him what [...]
Eye of the Tiger
I know…here we go again, here comes another stinking P-40, and a “Flying Tiger” one at that.
But…Please bear with me.
When I was a kid in the 1950’s, the “Flying Tigers”…the pilots of Claire Chennaults’s American [...]
Eduard 1/48 P-51D "My Achin' A*s".
Major Harry Crim of the 21st group's 531st squadron was a veteran pilot with 2,200 hours total time, & had logged 35 in the P-51. It was enough to become well acquainted with the Mustang's characteristics, though Crim still favored the [...]
Kfir C2 AMK 1/48 FAE (Ecuadorian air force)
Hello everyone, this is the amazing Kfir C2 1/48 from AMK, this is a special kit for me because i'm ecuadorian and i remember Kfirs, Jaguars and Mirages FAE flying over Quito in the 90's; also they went into action during the Cenepa war in [...]
Navy Revolt...1/48 Vought F4U-5 Corsario, Comando de Aviacion Naval Argentina
Another latin girl from 2016.
Hasegawa F4U-5N kit, Aztec decals, True Details cockpit, Gunze and Tamiya acrylics, EZ Line for brake lines and antenna wire, the "T" antenna on the belly was taken from the ancient Hasegawa F4U-4 [...]
Revell F-86F
All raised details have been rescribed, a lot of scratch inside the cockpit because it was completly wrong for the F model of the aircraft, hypodermic needle pitot tube, movable flaps, fuselage drains drilled and opened, scratch built [...]
Counter Insurgency...1/48 North American F-51D Mustang, Fuerza Aerea Guatemalteca
Built in 2016.
Hasegawa kit, Aztec decals, Mk.82 bombs from a Hasegawa weapon set, Gunze and Tamiya acrylics used.
The F*G used Mustangs for anti-guerilla fighting in the 60ies and early 70ies before the a/c were succeeded by the A-37 [...]
Stretching a weekend build, Academys 1/48 Griffon powered Spit
Plenty has been written about the failings of this kit and i won't go into detail here beside dropping a Jon Bius quote that i think is fitting for most of us modellers...
'But I believe most modelers just want to enjoy a build. They [...]
1/48 Kitty Hawk UH-1Y Venom
A beutiful kit by Kitty Hawk, I recomend it to everyone who is looking for detailed and quality helicopter kit. For $40 it includes detailed cockpit panels, colored paint/decal instructions and PE parts for seatbelts and fuselage details. [...]
SB2C-4 HELLDIVER by PRO-MODELER.
A modeler wrote and ask why I brush on a "water-thin black wash?"
My answer was to show all the imperfections that are in the plastic such as unfilled panel lines, sink marks and scratches left by my metal files and rough [...]
