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Midway Group Build 1/48 AMT P-40E Aleutian Tiger
Hand salute to Louis Gardner for organizing this build and to Chuck Villanueva for the fine introduction to the Midway reveal. And to Martin and staff for maintaining this excellent modeling web site. Well done gentleman. My subject is one [...]
Review: EDUARD 1/48 MESSERSCHMITT Bf 109F ROYAL CLASS video preview
A short video preview... Excellent Eduard Royal class Bf 109F dual combo in 48nd scale.
Thanks for watching!
All the best!
Dusan.
Coral Sea, Part Three: Douglas SBD-3, Dauntless
Part Three, is Accurate Miniatures, AWESOME 1:48 scale kit of this famous dive bomber.
It is in the markings of the aircraft flown from USS Lexington, by Ens John A Leppla, and John Liska, for attacks against IJN Shoho on 7 May, and IJN [...]
Coral Sea; Part Two... Aichi D3A1, Type 99, Carrier Bomber
Part Two, is the 1:48 scale Hasegawa kit, and it is in the markings of an aircraft flown from IJN Zuikaku, by Lt. Tomatsu Ema, (Pilot) with W/O Azuma, (Gunner).
Coral Sea, Part One: Mitsubishi A5M4, Type 96, Carrier Fighter...
With the Battle of Midway Group Build being close to it's reveal, I thought it would be proper to also include the "Other" carrier battle that took place, only a month earlier, in the Coral Sea. Much of what occurred during [...]
MiG-21 CZ “4175”
Dear Friends, enclosed one of my latest work - a big thanks to the Kitchecker Team for contributing my building-report within their latest issue:
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1/48 Tamiya Dewoitine D.520
Here is my D.520. Its almost straight out of the box except exhaust stacks from ultra cast and a photoetch gunsight from Eduard. The pilot figure is from PJ Productions. Markings are a combination of masks and the god awful Tamiya [...]
What’s with that “quick build” thing?
Too long; didn’t read summary: I no longer think I can find satisfaction in quick builds. They can be either quick or satisfying. Never both. Your mileage may vary.
Quick build (noun • /kwik bild/)
A box of sprues you grab, glue and [...]
Tamiya, 1:48 scale F4F-4 “Wildcat”: My First Build of this kit…
Before Tamiya released their 1:48 scale F4F-4 "Wildcat", there was only the old Monogram kit. The Monogram kit was little more than a toy, having folding wings and other "Features" that just made the kit a very [...]
Navy Ace Guy Bordelon, VC-3 Korea, Minicraft F4U-5N Corsair
This is something that I have been wanting to do for a long time now...each year passes and I would miss it, so here goes.
Since today is Memorial Day here in the US, and in honor of our fallen veterans, I felt that this would be [...]
