1/48 scale modeling
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The Revell Swift Boat in 1/48th scale is a re-release ot the old Monogram kit. This kit, besides being in an odd scale (for me) seemed very "toy-like" in that a lot of the "detail" was molded on. There was no [...]
Like most aircraft modelers, doing WW2 stuff, the first thing I wanted to build was the fast, sexy stuff like Mustangs and Spitfires, or the top aces of the time. But as I got more into researching and reading about the war, I soon [...]
The HU-16 first flew in 1947, designed as a replacement for the PBY "Catalina" amphibian. The US Air Force puchased it's first example in 1949 with the US Navy taking delivery of the amphibian in 1949. The US Coast Guard [...]
With the fab looking new tool airfix kit being released, I thought I'd get my old kit done thus creating a good excuse you get the new one...:) haha heehee hoo hoo...Done in the markings of one of Robert Standord Tucks' Battle of Britian [...]
Just to have an acceptable (so: not perfect) Mossie in my 48th collection I decided to marry the venerable nearly perfect in Outline Airfix Mossie with the superbly molded Tamiya which has some severe fuselage shape issues (cross section [...]
Here are some photos of my recently completed 1/48 Airfix Spitfire Mk. XIX. The model was painted with Model Master enamels. I added several items from Barracuda Studios which include the prop, wheels, exhausts, sliding portion of the [...]
The North American B-25 Mitchell is one of the legendary aircraft of the Second World War. If the airplane had done nothing else but fly off the U.S.S. "Hornet" with Doolittle's Raiders to strike the Japanese homeland four and a [...]
Hello All! I meant to post this one last year when I posted my USMC Cobra, as I built them simultaneously but then time got away from me...
Anyways, this is the Revell of Germany boxing of the old Monogram Cobra, built ALMOST OOB, with [...]