Rabaul Zero: Eduard 1/48 A6M3 Type 22
Field applied green camouflage on naval zeros in Rabaul is a source of diversity and a challenging painting style.
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1/48 Airfix F-51 "Rotation Blues"
Here is my take on Airfix's Korean War F-51. Great kit with excellent value. Built OOB with a few scratchbuilt modifications- namely a seat cushion with seat belts and some additional Korean War radio equipment that was not included in [...]
Hasegawa 1/48 Saab J-35FS Draken in Finnish service
Finnish Air Force Draken (DK-271) Fighter Squadron 21 (HävLLv 21).
Few pictures of Hasegawa Draken kit, build in year 2021. Drakens are in use during years 1976-2000 in Finland. All Finnish Drakens are interceptors without air-to-ground [...]
Hasegawa 1/48 Nagajima Ki84 TYPE4 FIGHTER HAYATE(FRANK) 10th Operational Flying Training Unit
Hasegawa 1/48 scale kit
I finished my personal favorite kit, which is one of Hasegawa's most well-made kits.
We focused on the metal representation and weathering of the used fuselage to finish it.
Riveted expressions are added throughout [...]
Academy 1/48 A-10C
The most trouble free aircraft model I've ever put together, I can't sing praise enough. The only AM are the seabelts, and I tossed in a few bombs I had lying about spare.
Painted in Tammy Sea Grey and Dark Sea Grey with a black Flory's [...]
Revell 1/48 F-89J Scorpion
The origins of the F-89 (the name Scorpion came from the elevated tail and high-mounted horizontal stabilizers) can be traced back in summer 1945, when USAAF issued a specification for a twin engine night fighter to replace the P-61 Black [...]
Tora Tora Tora!
This build took roughly a year to complete and features 3 Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft involved in the assault on Pearl Harbor.
I discovered this kit from Hasegawa around the fall of 2022 and had a pretty rough time tracking it down. [...]
Hasegawa, 1:48 Scale, Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vb (Trop)
This is one of those kits that was removed from the infamous, "Shelf of Doom!". Those shelves are like opinions, and everybody's got one...(Among other things...;)
"Shelf of Doom", "Bin of Shame", as model builders, we all [...]
Pfalz D.III, Eduard, 1:48, Vfw. Hecht, Jasta 10,
This is Eduard's first Pfalz release and one of my early models, when I didn't use tensioners and made the strings from threads pulled from women's stockings.
Vizefeldwebel Hecht's aircraft of Jasta 10, was forced to land behind British [...]
A tale about a tail.
1/48 Hasegawa Messerschmitt Me109G-6. Htm Franz Dorr, CO of 111/JG5, Gossen, Norway. May 1945.
This one was started years ago when I realised I didn't have the right tail section for the version I was doing. I had a G-14 short tail. [...]
