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Academy 1/48th F-4B
Returning to my US Navy theme, one of my all time favourite aircraft the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom.
The Academy version is a very nice model and certainly benefits from modern moulding technology. The one piece main fuselage is a big [...]
Hobbyboss 1/48th A-6A Intruder
Amongst my favourite modelling themes is US Navy aviation during its grey and white period and those colourful squadron markings. So I'd like to start my US Navy theme with the Grumman A-6A Intruder.
I had long looked at Hobbyboss's 48th [...]
Hasegawa 1/48 F-86A Sabre
I did this Sabre back in 2003 and recently re-photographed it.
The Sabre almost didn't happen. Had the Air Force not been willing to delay the F-86 program while North American undertook to study the swept wing research done by [...]
Nosing around, and a tale of two engines….
Boba is almost ready to see "The Force Awakens", but in the meantime he has a couple pints of "Bad Santa" from my home state of Oregon (Go Ducks, beat TCU in the Alamo Bowl!) and is trying to sort out Kinetics poor nose [...]
Kinetic 1/48th BAe Sea Harrier FA.2
There just something great about the Harrier and such a shame they taken out of service far too early.
Still there good kits released of this classic British aircraft and Kinetics' 1/48th Sea Harrier FA.2 is a very good kit eventually. End [...]
1/48 Tamiya Do-335 Heavy
Another one of those awesome Tamiya kits. Finished in markings of one captured by the French by the end of the war. Finished with Tamiya paints and weathered with Mig wash.
Cheers Brian
1/48 Tamiya A-1H Skyraider VA-25 Fist of the Fleet
Here is the awesome Tamiya Skyraider. Decals from After burnder Yankee Station Mig Killer. Painted with Tamiya paints and weatherd with Mig wash.
Cheers Brian
Airfix 1/48 Hurricane Mk 1
This is the old tooling of Airfix's Mk 1 Hurricane. I chose to model it "in flight" and mounted the aircraft on a clear plastic pole. The base is a fence post top covered with model railroad static grass. Mostly the kit was built [...]
Trumpeter's F-100C Super Sabre in 1/48.
this is the Trumpeter F-100C kit which I built some 3 years ago. I had absolutely no trouble with it apart from a little bit of fettling around the air intake. Finish is Alclad & decals by Xtra Decals. The weathering is very [...]
