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The SUPERMARINE Type 300 Conversion 1/48 Tamiya – Paragon
Fifteen years ago I got a December 1999 Aircraft Modeller magazine International "special" SPITFIRE.
By that time a good kit of Tamiya Spitfire mk.1 and 1/48 Plans and article in this journal
with a set of photographs in books [...]
The Black Magic
I'm a big fan of the Golden Age and also the Macrobertson race - that drived me into this build. This is my 1:48 Comet racer built from the horrible Heritage kit (I mean it!).
After I overcome the Airfix 1:72 Comet (another long story) I [...]
Gloster Meteor III by Tamiya (1/48 scale)
My Meteor represents the first of this type to fly in Australia. Serial was originally EE427 but changed to A77-1 by the RAAF Intended for familiarisation & trials, it survived from June 1946 to February 1947 when it was somewhat [...]
BF-109G-10, 1/48
Here is my just completed BF-109G-10.
I admire the subtle, yet complex, mottled Luftwaffe paint schemes more advanced model builders achieve and wanted to try one. Not being equipped with an air brush and not expecting great results, I [...]
Airfix 1/48 AH.7 Lynx, SFOR Headquarters, Ilidza, Bosnia 1998
Hello all! I present to you my Airfix 1/48 scale Lynx helicopter. I wanted to build this one to represent a Lynx that we landed next to in Ilidza, Bosnia, back in 1998. All I had to go on was one less-than-stellar photo that I took, so [...]
1/48 Strombecker X-1B Restoration
It's not quite finished, but thought I would post anyway.
I got this model off ebay. It was an estate sale purchase.
I paid way too much for it, but I like the old dogs and it is an original Strombecker kit.
It arrived in pretty bad shape. [...]
Hasegawa 1/48 F-86E conversion
The F-86E Sabre began life as the NA-170, with initial development commencing on November 15, 1949, with a contract for 111 aircraft under the designation F-86E finalized on January 17, 1950.
Externally, the F-86E was identical to the [...]
1/48 Accurate Miniatures B-25D Mitchell “Red Wrath” of the 345th Bomb Group. “Air Apaches”
I built "Red Wrath" in 2004 and rediscovered the model the other week when going through boxes that had been in storage for 10 years at the place we lived before moving here to Encino. I decided to re-photograph the model here [...]
