RAF P-47s
Not totally oddball but 2 1/48 P-47s that served with the 73OTU in Fayid, Egypt,1945. The razorback was a Monogram kit and the bubbletop was Academy. Decals by LPS Decals "British Thunderbolts" and Iliad Decals "RAF [...]
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1/48 Airfix B.P Defiant Mk.I
Hello Folks
My latest and last in 2016 completed build. This time Defiant Mk.I from Airfix in 1/48 scale.
Pretty nice kit maybe the panel lines a little bit soft and out of scale, but goes together no problem it all.
Decals I used for this [...]
1/48 Tamiya F4U-1 Birdcage Corsair “Daphne C” Bureau number 03829, VMF-213, Captain James Cupp
Tonight's article is about the second F4U from my very first article here on Imodeller. This one is hot off the work bench. It's one of 3 early Corsair builds that I had going on at the same time. Two were by Tamiya and one was from [...]
1/48 AMT F7F-2N Tigercat night fighter
Hi all, I hope you are having a good Christmastime with friends and family.
I have had this kit sitting for a while waiting to get the outer wing panels properly set to finish the kit. It is the AMT 1/48 F7F-2N.
I made use of Obscureco [...]
Homage to Jim Goodson
I am late, I know. He died more than two years ago. But I actually built this diorama before his death. James Goodson has always been one of my favorite air aces of WII. He is one of those guys that never achieved the popular status some [...]
1/48 Bleriot xiii
This is a full scratch model of a Greek Bleriot captured from Turkish air force on 1922.I hope you like it.
Oh no!... not another one of those snake Stukas.... Hasegawa 1/48 Ju-87R-trop
Finally finished this one- a battle royal. The day I started this Murphy's law became the law of my bench. As usual, Eduard P-E cockpit & masks were employed and decals were from Eagle-Cals.
I added a few things here & there- [...]
(Revised) 1/48 Hobby Boss F4U-1 “Early” Corsair, Great Lakes recovery Bureau Number 02465 “F-21”
Tonight I revised the article on my latest build, a Hobby Boss F4U-1 "early", which is hot off the work bench. The revision is due in part by observations and information from our fellow Imodeler members, namely my friends and [...]
Beaufighter TF.X by Tamiya in 1/48 scale
Needing something simpler after my last build I opted for Tamiya's Beaufighter TF.X & discovered a wealth of detail on the web for Coastal Command squadrons based at RAF Dallachy in Scotland.
I was lucky to find Aviaeology decals for [...]
1/48 Airfix Spitfire II
The first upgrade of the Spitfire was the Spitfire II, developed to take advantage of a more powerful version of the Marlin engine.
Spitfire Mk.I K9788 was fitted with a Merlin XII in the summer of 1939. Tests demonstrated improved [...]
