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1/48 Testors Nieuport Type 17 C.1
Last winter, I dug my one and only World War One build out of the cabinet, and thought, what the heck, take some pics of the old girl. It has never been photographed before, and it looks pretty rough in many ways. It is the ancient [...]
Review: Airfix 1/48 P-40B – some background notes in review
It's likely everyone will be doing this kit soon, so here are some notes on construction and some detail information on AVG airplanes.
As the four assembly photos demonstrate, if you take care in assembly, you will not use any filler or [...]
Classic Airframes Fokker DXXI 1/48
This is the Classic Airframes 1/48 Fokker DXXI that I built in 2013. A very labor intensive bit of work it was, but I am very happy with the end result. Unfortunately I do not have any pics of the interior build progress. It was a very [...]
1/48 Tamiya FW-190 D-9 “Lt Oscar Romm” IV/JG 3 Sturm
Tonight's article is on a kit that I built many years ago sometime around the year 2000. It's the Tamiya model FW-190"D-9" .
Oscar Romm was a Luftwaffe "Experten" who is credited with 92 kills. 82 of these were from [...]
1/48 Hobbycraft F8F Bearcat “Gulfhawk 4” Al Williams
Here tonight is another Hobbycraft Bearcat. This one is finished in the colors of Al Williams plane the "Gulfhawk 4". The Gulfhawk 4 was a civilian version of the F8F Bearcat and was called a G-58. Only two G-58's were built. [...]
Hobbycraft 1/48 Grumman F8F Bearcat Blue Angels “Beetle Bomb”
Here are some photos of my version of the "Beetle Bomb" Blue Angels plane. The original "Beetle Bomb" was a North American SNJ that was painted to resemble a Japanese Zero.
Beetle Bomb was incorporated into the Blue [...]
Early Emil: Airfix’s 1/48 Bf.109E-1
If you want an accurate 'kerbside' representation of a Bf.109E you really can't go far wrong with Airfix's 1/48 scale offering released some five or six years ago.
It's not a bad kit, not as well finessed as the Eduard kit, but a lot [...]
F-16C block 50 1:48 Tamiya + Aires, Eduard
This is model of F-16 from Red Flag 15-3 excercies that took part in July 2015, Nevada. Its normal base is Spandahlem in Germany.
F-16s from Spangdahlem are coated with special Have Glass paint having ability to distract radio waves. This [...]
