1/48 scale modeling
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1/48 Tamiya P-47D Razorback 318th FG Saipan
Fresh off the bench Razorback finish in the marking of the 318th Fg out of Saipan . The 318th Thunderbolts was loaded on Jeep Carriers at Bellows fields then launched from the carrier once it arrived at Saipain where then did a mission [...]
Flyg Of The Tiger
Greetings.
I keep saying I’ll undertake something easier, but I never do.
This is the Airfix 1/48 de Havilland DH.82a done up as a Swedish Sk-11a machine from the 30s. It had a particularly long gestation period, as biplanes tend to do, [...]
Coastal Command Crusader: 1/48th Tamiya Beaufighter
Tamiya released their 1/48th scale Beaufighter duo starting in 1997 with the Mk.VI and added the TF.X later. This offering was pretty much The go-to kit in 1/48th scale, for a couple of decades, until Revell's release in 2018 offered a [...]
Classic Airframes 1/48 J-2F 5 Duck
A challenging model like most of Classic Airframes' kits. Although the rigging is minimal, there are some fit problems to resolve. Loose wires were discovered during the photography session and were stretched back to place.
In the end, the [...]
Iraq Migs in the Persian Gulf: Eduard 1/48 Mig 21Bis
Mig 21Bis of the Iraqi Air Force based in Jalibah during the mid 80s were deployed to patrol the Persian Gulf. These aircraft had a specialized sea camouflage and probably anti naval vessels missiles for use against the Iranian Navy.
Review: A Tale of Two Cougars – Kitty Hawk 1/48 F9F-8 Cougar
By the time Grumman’s F9F-2 Panther was entering fleet service in 1949, the advantages of swept wings had already been proven by the North American F-86 Sabre which had flown in prototype form within months of the XF9F-2. The big [...]
Mean looking Warhawk
This is a Hobby 2000 reboxing of Hasegawa’s 1/48 P-40N. Aside from PE belts and resin exhausts, it’s built out of the box.
Not the most original scheme, but arguably the meanest looking fighter of the war, so it was a “must have” [...]
Siam Sword...1/48 North American F-86F-40 Sabre, Royal Thai Airforce
Next Thai Fighter finished by my dad.
Hasegawa kit with Siam Scale decals, Eduard PE seatbelts, gun covers and exhaust area painted with MRP Steel, wing central areas with MRP White Aluminium, main surface done with MRP Super Silver. Red [...]
Wingman Model 1/48 Kfir RC 2
A model representing one of the late development of Kfir. Wingman Models issued three variants of the Kfir. The reconnaissance version of the Kfir is a challenging model due to the nature of the plastic mold, which is Kinetic's Kfir,
A hornet without its stingers: F/A-18B in action at the National Air and Space Agency NASA
A fully equipped F/A-18 Hornet in civilian hands? Is there such a thing? Surprisingly, you don't have to look far to answer yes: the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been operating a small fleet of F/A-18 Hornets [...]
