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1/48 Hispano Ha-1112 Buchon, Ejército del Aire
Built in 2015.
Academy boxing of the Hobbycraft kit, mostly built oob. Replaced the crappy kit canopy with a Hasegawa one, for that some putty and re-scribing was neccessary in the fuselage area behind the canopy.
Used a piece of sponge [...]
Airfix 1/48 Tiger Moth
This is my build of the Shuttleworth Tiger Moth from Airfix's 1/48 kit. It's a nice kit and well engineered, there's even an included jig for adapting the tail for the two different versions featured in the kit as one has the anti-spin [...]
1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109F-4 Ejército del Aire
Built in 2015.
Zvezda kit with decals from LF Models, painted with Gunze and Tamiya acrylics, antenna wires with EZ Line.
In 1943 the Spanish Airforce received about a dozen F-4s which were stationed partly in France and Spain. Not much [...]
First Flight – Empire of Japan
Here's the last of the four kits I finished this year - Hasegawa's lovely Mitshubishi 12 Shi experimental fighter, a.k.a. the A6M1. The kit allows you to build either of the two prototypes. I built the first and decided to model it as it [...]
AMX - T Ghibli
Ghibli is the "nickname" attributed in the nineties to the AMX (aeronautical nomenclature A-11B), a single-engine attack and reconnaissance aircraft, also available in the advanced training two-seat version (AMX-T), the result of [...]
SBD-3 Dauntless – Hasegawa 1/48
Hello everyone, this is another of my old builds, completed sometime around 2007. I wanted to show the plane in the dive-bombing position, so I cut off the dive brakes and drilled out all the holes with a pin-vise. I also cut off the [...]
F4U-4 Corsair – Hasegawa 1/48
Hello! This is a kit I finished around 2006. I remember I used a Verlinden resin and photo-etch detail set for the first time to show one wing folded and the inside of the gun bay on the other wing. I remember doing a lot of cutting and [...]
The Badercane
‘The RAF needs men, not schoolboys.’
Douglas Bader's Commandant had admonished him after he crashed at Woodley Aerodrome in 1931, having tried to roll his Bristol Bulldog at "naught feet." Needless to say, the biplane became [...]
Tamiya Bf-109E-4
I am in the middle of building an old Monogram 1/48 B-17 and got frustrated by some paint issues. I decided to take a break, and do a quick uncomplicated build. I have an old Cutting Edge Bf 109E sheet (CED48189). There was one bird in [...]
Mitsubishi A6M2 zero zeke
Hi everybody!
This is my A6M2 zero built as part of the empire of japan group build. So many good models on that group. This is Tamiyas Quite old 1/48 zero. With raised panel lines and a few recessed ones, so I decided to get the [...]
