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My latest entry into the Good From Afar but Far From Good Collection: Monogram's AV-8B Harrier II, 1/48 scale.
Scratch built enhancements include the nose and main landing gear doors, auxiliary inlet door interiors, and lead wiring on the [...]
Hobbyboss' Thud kit is not a great kit. It is plagued with fit and shape issues, notably the cockpit components. Nonetheless, the model radiates much of the greatness of this fighter.
Given the large number of parts that require [...]
The origins of the Boomerang can be traced in late 1941, when Lawrence Wackett, manager and chief designer of Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) examined the possibility of designing and building a new fighter aircraft, a first for [...]
This the seventh P-40 that I started last year, but did not complete, in time for a club display for the Australian Model Expo. I built them as one group of three and a second group of four.
Top P-40 Ace
P-40 in Defence of Port [...]
Finished the 1/48 Tamiya Il-2 Shturmovik. It's a great kit - Tamiya's excellent kit engineering makes it very fun to build. I added riveting to the airframe with a rivet wheel, used Eduard's photo etch for the seatbelts, and also [...]
A very straightforward build that I treated as a mojo restorer...I sometimes find myself going down a rabbit hole with an excessive amount of detailing (most of which can't been seen anyway) when I'm building some kits which sometimes [...]
The Republic P-47D-30, which appeared in the ETO during the fall of 1944, and was produced at both the Farmingdale and Evansville factories, was the first Thunderbolt sub-type to have the underwing dive brakes that prevented the airplane [...]