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Rigging Biplanes- Looking for help.

by Jim Morgan on April 15, 2020 · in Uncategorized · 10 ≡

I would like some opinions from people about how to best rig biplanes. I have read a few articles I found online. If you have any experience on which technique you like best, which article you found most helpful, or just how you do it, I [...]

Trumpeter 1/48 SM 79 II

by Bryan W. Bernart on April 15, 2020 · in Aviation · 14 ≡

What I will say about this kit, finished just a couple of weeks ago after being buried in the stash for a decade. It went together cleanly, was interesting to paint and looks pretty much like an SM 79 should. The interior is sparse, so I [...]

1/48 Eduard MIG-21PFM – Polish Air Force

by David Kopielski on April 14, 2020 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

This build is the Eduard MIG-21PFM. I used the kit decals for the Polish Air Force MIG from 1996. It was a fun kit to build and it is built right out of the box. The ProfiPack comes with the photo etch accessory for the cockpit and exhaust [...]

1/48 F6F-5N Hellcat

by John Healy on April 14, 2020 · in Aviation · 25 ≡

This is the Eduard Weekend Edition kit built with a few add ones. The model represents the Hellcat flown by VMF(N)-533’s Captain Robert Baird on Okinawa in the summer of 1945. Baird became the Marines’ first night fighter ace with [...]

Hobbycraft 1/48 Vought F7U-3 “Cutlass”

by Spiros Pendedekas on April 13, 2020 · in Aviation · 40 ≡

Hi everyone! Here is my 1/48 F7U-3 "Cutlass", built 15 years ago. The F7U Cutlass was a United States Navy carrier-based jet fighter and fighter-bomber of the early Cold War era. It was a tailless aircraft for which aerodynamic [...]

3 Spitfires to make 1: Spitfire Mk.XIVe High-Back Conversion from Eduard and Airfix 1/48 kits

by Justin Bronk on April 13, 2020 · in Aviation · 22 ≡

As something of a Coronavirus lockdown special effort, I finally did something I've been thinking about attempting for months and which others including Tom Cleaver have done previously: A Mk.XIV high-back conversion kit bash. I built this [...]

Koster/Monogram 1/48 XP-47J Superbolt

by Bryan W. Bernart on April 13, 2020 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

Finished early in the Lockdown, this was quick and easy for a vac conversion. The required Revell/Monogram donor was easy to locate, in this case a "razorback". Koster provides a fuselage, resin prop/hub assembly in one piece ( [...]

SWAT...1/48 Messerschmitt Bf109G-1 Fieseler-Skoda FiSk 199

by Reinhard Spreitzhofer on April 13, 2020 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

After the Fw190 with the Hagelkorn gliding bomb, my dad has finished another subject of the Special Weapons And Tactics category. Hasegawa kit (limited), added Eduard seatbelts, Antenna wire with EZ Line and fishing line, yellow fuel line [...]

P-51D Mustang. Tamiya 1/48.

by S. Cubas on April 13, 2020 · in Aviation · 6 ≡

Hi all Long time out of here, but still alive. This is my latest model, a well known P-51D Mustang from 8th Air Force. This is the Tamiya kit with a horrible silver plastic. I never will build another one with this kind of plastic [...]

Spitfire and R&R Griffon: when two sounding names combine, a legend is born! Spitfire Mk.XIV from Airfix.

by Roland Sachsenhofer on April 13, 2020 · in Aviation · 9 ≡

In the course of its long career, the Spitfire has been flown with two Roll-Royce engines, whose illustrious names have become legends in connection with this aircraft itself: on the one hand, the engines of the Merlin series, and on the [...]