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Special Hobby 1/48 Firefly Mk.V
During the last year of the Second World War, the Fairey Firefly F.R.I had proven itself the best British designed carrier strike aircraft used in the conflict. With the end of the war and the need to get rid of the U.S. carrier aircraft [...]
1/48 Hasegawa Bf 109G-2 trop
1/48 Hasegawa Bf 109G-2 trop,
Flown by Oblt. Werner Schroer, CO of 8./JG 27, Rhodes, early November, 1942 Werner Schroer achieved 61 kills in the skies over Africa., the first of which was a Hurricane downed on April 19, 1941 over Tobruk, [...]
COD HELP US!
Well I haven't posted in a while, I got moved (finally) back to day shift, and in the meantime I have been plugging away at my C-2. One of the first things I did was get the shape of the APU exhaust opening the right shape, Kinetic has it [...]
ARII 1/48 Nakajima Ki 44 "Shoki" (Tojo)
The Ki 44 was a Japanese Army Air Force interceptor. The ARII kit, while old, was at one time, "state of the art", and is still a no-problem, fun build. By today's standards, there's not much detail, but this kit comes from a [...]
Martin Baker 5.
Hi all.
Here's one I made some time back. I think it's a Silver Cloud kit in 1:48th scale.
The kit decals were shot so the spares box saved the day. It also supplied the weapons, I've no idea what it would have carried so it's a little [...]
1/48 F-101B Voodoo
This is one of two Monogram Voodoos that I purchased back in 1985, when they were brand new. I built the first immediately, and it ended up on the backyard target range for my son's pellet gun circa 2001. When Caracal Models released [...]
Adversaries
Yesterday was a fair Autumn day at home, posing a good occasion to rig up an outdoor studio for model shooting. Not least to photograph my recently finished 1/48 scale Tamiya Dewoitine D.520 on which I'd been working for the larger part of [...]
Spitfire Mk IXc early 1/48
In 1942, RAF loss rates remained unacceptably high. due to the performing german Focke-Wulf 190A. The only British fighter aircraft deemed suitable to oppose them were the Spitfire Mk. VII and VIII powered by the Merlin 61 engine. But [...]
Army Type Otsu 1 / Salmson 2A2 – Gaspatch models 1/48
Dear Fellow modelers,
This is my latest project - the first Japanese mass production aircraft. After WWI, the Salmson 2A2 reconnaissance aircraft was produced in Japan under license and the name of Army Type Otsu 1. Approximately 1000 [...]
