1:48th scale modelling
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1/48 Scale F7F-Tigercat
Sometime in the early 1990's I met up with "Pylon Dave Jone's" who lived in Oklahoma/U.S.A. Dave sent me over 500 color 3-1/2" x 5" prints. I scanned in all of the photos, including several black and white prints then [...]
Dutch Push´n´Pull...RS Models 1/48 Fokker D-XXIII
Built in 2018.
A typical shortrun kit with all its disadvantages, also the plastic didn´t respond good to the plastic glue, for example the left tail boom broke off two times, after the model was painted.
Gunze and Tamiya acrylics used, [...]
1/48 scale Monogram's AH-64 "APACHE ATTACH CHOPPER"
Sometime in mid 1990 a guy call's me on the phone and say's: "I'll pay you five grand to build me a 1/48 scale Apache Helicopter." I was a bit "flabbergasted-gasted" but I said I will do it. He sent me a package in the [...]
F-5A Freedom Fighter - Testors - 1/48
F-5A Freedom Fighter
Turkish Airforce 14904
5th Main Jet Base
Date of Arrival: 01 December 1987
ex.RNoAF
Kit: Testors (1966 Hawk Mold)
Scale: 1/48
Decals: Miscellaneous
Paints: Tamiya, Mr. Hobby, Vallejo
Airbrush: Sparmax [...]
Miles Magister M.14A - Special Hobby - 1/48
Miles M.14A Magister I
Turkish Airforce White 6
Kayseri Tayyare Fabrikası 3606
Hava Okulu, 1st Training Batallion, 1st & 2nd Companies
Date of Arrival: 1942
Kit: Special Hobby
Scale: 1/48
Decals: Tigerhead Decals
Paints: Mission [...]
Suez Crisis...Airfix 1/48 Gloster Meteor F.8 Israeli Airforce
Built in 2017.
The Meteors were Israel´s first jet aircraft and they served in the No.117 Squadron which was also called the "First Jet Squadron".
Airfix kit, Isradecals, Vallejo Metal Color Aluminium, antennas on spine are [...]
Mig GB – late to the party, Trumpeter 1/48 MiG-19
Hi folks, I hope Sebastijen doesn't mind me gatecrashing his party, but, for various reasons, I have't been on iModeler for quite some time. The main reason is that iModeler hasn't been available here in China for some time, but I noticed [...]
Supermarine Walrus Mk.I Airfix 1/48
A relatively new kit (2017) with great detail in all areas, with great application, and you are happy to assemble it.
The Mid Valley Flying Service Hanger, Crop Care by Air
Here is another hanger diorama, this time a small, ag operator's hanger. It's O-dark-thirty and the work day is beginning.
I found this Lionel hanger on eBay for a good price, so I thought I would build it up and see what it looked like. [...]
GWH 1/48 Douglas TBD-1 Devastator in Barclay Scheme No.8
Hope everybody got savely into 2020!
Here´s another more rare scheme, built in 2015.
Besides the USAAF also the USN tested experimental camos on their aircraft. The US artist McClelland Barclay designed 8 schemes which were applied to two [...]
