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Review: Kitty Hawk 1/48 UH-1D “Huey” – Build Review, Part 3
Into the final stages of the build now, but first I wanted to revisit a comment I made in Part 2 about the side vents at the base of the rotor mast. There have been one or two comments about this and I wanted to clarify an issue.
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Here’s two I prepared earlier…
Both are TAMIYA 1/48 scale kits.
The P-47D "Pride O' Dogpatch" is actually the P-47M kit as it has the fin-fillet. Decals by AeroMaster.
The P-51D "Madam Wham-Dam" is a VLR Mustang based at Iwo Jima. The a/c was [...]
MiG-21MF 'Fishbed-J'
I don’t do a lot of commission builds so this is more of an exception. A flight-simming friend did me a lot of favors in the last few months for which I am very grateful. And he’s a big MiG-21 fan so one thing led to another and I [...]
Review: Kitty Hawk 1/48 UH-1D “Huey” – Build Review, Part 2
The first part of this review can be found here: (link)
Moving on with the main body of the machine, I'm now finding a few discrepancies - nothing major, but you need your wits about you.
In these photos, you can see that there are a few [...]
1/48 Hasegawa F/A-18C VFA-151 Vigilantes
This is my latest build, 1/48 Hasegawa Legacy Hornet. For this project I used Eduard PE for the cockpit, twobobs decal, MAW resin for the exhaust, Gunze acrylics paint and Alclad for the exhaust. It was an enjoyable build all throughout.
Glamorous Glennis in 1/72
Finally finished this one - the old Tamiya kit - and it was a pleasure to build. Fit was generally very good and the cockpit and landing gear really looked the part. I added some Brengun photo etch, some miscellaneous brass pitot booms [...]
