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This my 1/48 Hobbycraft de Havilland Vampire FB52, Iraq, 1955, built for the de Havilland Aircraft Company 100 years Group Build.
The Vampire is a British jet fighter which was developed and manufactured by the de Havilland [...]
This is a scheme seen many times before, but I need it to do mine!
Bf 109F-4/Trop, W.Nr. 8673, flown by Hptm. Hans-Joachim Marseille
F-4/Trop, CO of 3./ JG 27, in Quotaifiya, Egypt, in September 1942.
He flew this aircraft about a [...]
On Wednesday, my school which was online that day cut 75 percent of the day so I only had 2 hours. After finishing homework, I spent almost the entire day working on the sky raider and managed to finish it. The only thing I added to the [...]
History
The 6147th Tactical Control Group originated at Taejon, South Korea, within the "operations section" of the Joint Operations Center. Three pilots, and two Stinson L-5 Sentinels, were assigned as airborne forward air [...]
This build of the 1/48 Tamiya A-10 Thunderbolt II was done for a client who is an active pilot in the online Digital Combat Simulator. The scheme is an exact copy of the aircraft he flies in the simulator. The scheme specific decals were [...]
Here’s my interpretation of Gabby Gabreski’s P-47D. This is the Tamiya kit, one of the best engineered kits I’ve ever had the pleasure to make. Honestly, I don’t know why I don’t have a half dozen more in my collection. Oh, [...]
HISTORY
To know a little about the history of this plane and its famous pilot, see my previous article:
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THE KIT
Following my build of Neil Armstrong's Panther in 1:72, and in which I showed a letter he wrote to his father during [...]
I built this Mosquito for the De Havilland Group Build. There are a lot of great choices of planes to build for this group, but I wanted to be a little creative in my choice. One of my favorite flying movies is 633 Squadron, which is [...]
This kit has been in my stash since the 1990’s. Some significant work was required to reinforce and clean up the front/rear fuselage join. Without internal reinforcement, there’s too much flex and too little area for glue to adhere [...]