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This is a BIG aircraft, and a very basic, inexpensive kit of a Chinese fighter in demonstration team colors. Everything about this kit is minimal, including detail and decals, but the overall size is impressive, and it looks [...]
As I love the F4U Corsair, I also love one other aircraft that carried the name- this one, Hasegawa's 1/48 A-7E Corsair II built as a Desert Storm HARM launcher. I am flabbergasted at the lack of operational Desert Storm A-7E markings out [...]
This is the Tamiya 1/48 F4U-2 Corsair in VF(N)-101 markings. More recent research suggests the side color may not be black, but rather fresh Sea Blue over the Intermediate Blue, but as of five years ago, this is how the VF(N)-101 night [...]
Hello everyone! Another airplane with red stars, this time from Roden Sopwith Strutter. The assembly of the box, nothing special, and the option selected "based on". Of the shortcomings - too shiny hood, but it is only in the [...]
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I am glad to finally finish this particular kit. It sat partially assembled for years with a Black Box cockpit, and decals ready to go. I added Seamless S*****s intakes, Cobra Co Exhausts, and used an Eduard F-4 canopy etch set for [...]
Also hiding in my cardboard box, was this old "Flea". While I did beef up the interior, you can't see anything because of the thick clear canopy. As usual, another trip down memory lane.
This model is the 1/48th scale Hasegawa Mitsubishi J2M3 Raiden (Thunderbolt) Allied code name “Jack” and represents an A/C belonging to the 332 Naval Air Group, based at Naruo Air Base Dec 1945. The model was built OOB with the [...]
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The Curtiss "Page Racer" is one of the more mysterious speed machines of the Golden Age of air racing, and Army / Navy rivalry in the Pulitzer and Thompson races. Built under false fighter [...]
Another OOB from the old file stash... nice kit, but shows it's age.
Another oldie but a goodie ! OOB all the way. It's a nice kit that never got much attention.