1/48 scale modeling
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THE FRYING PAN CHALLENGE! Part 3. Fuselage and wings.
A german high quality virus halted the build for almost a week and ruined three days of skiing vacation, but today I got going again.
The clear parts didn't really fit as one would wish, so some putty and sanding was required.
With [...]
Revel 1/48 P-40B
This is my first post and I'm happy to be apart of the society. This is my P-40B from Revel. The tow cart is from a B-24 as well as the crew. Please note the base ball cap on the driver of the tow cart. Base ball was a popular sport in the [...]
1/48 Nakajima Ki-27 by Hasegawa
This is an early Hasegawa boxing of the Mania Models Ki-27 from about 1977...I think. I put some Eduard details in the cockpit including a seat, belts, and instrument panel but since its so small I really didn't do much more there. The [...]
F-7F 3 Tigercat 1/48 Italeri
My last kit F-7F 3 from U.S.M.C., MAG-33, Phoang, Korea, 1953
Tamiya P-51B – Don Gentile’s “Shangri-La”
Don Gentile - The Most Controversial Ace
When I sat down 30 years ago to write “the definitive fighter pilot screenplay” and chose as my subject the 4th Fighter Group in the Spring of 1944 during “The Great Ace Race,” with Don [...]
1/48th Trumpeter Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23ML Iraqi Air Force January 1991, The Great Escape
It's 5:00 Am in late January, Capt Ahmad Al-Saladi is still contemplating what he and his brothers are about to partake. 2 days prior the Iraqi Air force had launched a rather ambitious attack against coalition ground forces that had [...]
Review: Airfix 1/48 North American P-51D Mustang
This is a review of the new (2017) Airfix model kit of the ever popular P-51D Mustang in 1/48 scale. Box number is A05131. I suspect we don´t need to waste any time and space on the P-51 history so we go straight to the review.
The kit is [...]
Spitfire Mk.IXc
The 1/48 Spitfire from Eduard
A good model without problems, the only problem for me is the scale, I usually work with 1:32 and this is my first 1:48 is a gift for a colleague.
He asked me at this scale for size issues.
But for my eyes it [...]
1/48 F-8E Crusader VF-162
I give to you the 1/48 Hasegawa F-8E VF-162 . Painted with Tamiya and MRP paints. Decals was off the Afterburner Yankee Station Mig Killers . Nice to have another shelf of doom project finished [...]
