1/48 scale modeling
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MiniArt P-47D-25RE “Hairless Joe”
Flown by Col. David Schilling, 62nd Fighter Squadron, 56th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force, August 1944. Schilling, a big fan of the comic strip “Li’l Abner”, wrote the cartoonist, Al Capp, for permission to use his characters as nose [...]
Eduard 1/48 Bf 109K-4 Wr Nr 330130
I received this Weekend Edition kit as a Christmas present. As I looking online for help with K-4 camouflage stumbled across Wr Nr 330130 and its crazy tight squiggle demarcation for the top colors on the fuselage. So decided to try and [...]
Hasegawa 1/48 AV-8B Harrier II Plus
Two Hasegawa AV-8 models. In spite of its shortfalls, Hasegawa's American Harriers have the appeal saved to potentially realistic looking models.
Hasegawa 1/48 Messerschmitt Bf 109E-4/7 Trop.
The model depicts the mount of Ofw. Hermann Förster serving in 2/JG27, Ain-el-Gazala, June 1941. Förster served mostly in the single-engine night fighter squadron NJG 1 before transferring to Africa with 2/JG27. He scored a total of 13 [...]
1/48 Ki-61Tei
This is the original Hasegawa long nose Ki-61 kit from 1994. I bought it brand new when it was released and it marinated in the stash for 31 years. I pulled it out of the stash last month along with a short nose Ki-61 Hei and an Otaki [...]
Polka Dot Warrior: Spotted A*s Ape assembly ship Liberator
As an assembly ship in the 458th Bombardment Group in the Eighth, Spotted A*s Ape flew more than 60 missions, assembling her group’s aircraft. It had its guns removed and formation lights in the letter “I” on her flanks and the red [...]
Zvezda 1/48 LaGG-3
Just a few days before Christmas , 2024, a package arrived in the mail from my friend, Liliya. She had sent gifts for everyone in my family. My wife was given a cool set of nesting dolls, mine was this new release Zvezda kit that Liliya [...]
Meng, IAF, F-4E Phantom II in 1/48
Hi everynoe,
Here is my IAF, F-4E, Phantom II in 1/48 by Meng.
An excellent kit with close to perfect fit and very good details.
Highly recomended.
The Clunk: 1/48th Hobbycraft CF-100 Mk.IV Canuck
Hobbycraft introduced their 1/48th CF-100 Mk.V in 1989 followed by their 1/48th CF-100 Mk.IV in 1990. Hobbycraft specialty was releasing Canadian aircraft types that no other manufacturer would produce in an injection mold kit. While the [...]
Dornier Do 215B-4
Here’s my build if the ICM Do-215B-4 in 1:48 I completed a couple of months ago and just got around to getting some photos when the sun finally came out of it’s winter hibernation. A nice kit, but with some minor issues. The [...]
