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1/48 Tamiya F-4B Phantom II
Introduction
The F-4 Phantom II aka "Rhino", "Double Ugly", “the "Flying Anvil", "Flying Footlocker", "Flying Brick", "Lead Sled", the "Big Iron Sled" and the [...]
Dragon 1/48 Bf-110D Naghtjager
An excellent model by Dragon depicting the first dedicated Luftwaffe aircraft for night operations.
The model is highly detailed and the FuG array required some attention to trim the poles to the appropriate scale. Flying surfaces are [...]
Hasegawa 1/48 Sea Hurricane Mk. IIC
An oldie that requires careful build, particularly around the wings and fuselage joints, canopy and arresting hook areas.
Hasegawa 1/48 Bf 109G-10/U4
After II./JG 51 was disbanded on April 5th, 1945, at Fels am Wagram, one of the 109s transferred was an aircraft depicted here. The overpainted marking discloses the former service under II. /JG 51.
Kinetic 1/48 F-16I IDF
In its early days in service in the IDF, the "Sufa" (storm) was seen without the Conformal Fuel Tanks. Nowadays, the CFTs are always in place.
Eduard 1/48 Focke wulf Fw 190A-5
Eduard kit with CMK engine. The fit of engine is bad, but it helps to have all the cowls in the open position.
The slow race to first resin finish.
Greetings.
Despite collecting for a few decades and amassing an extensive, eclectic collection of obscure garage kits, I have actually never finished a resin model. There are quite a few of them rotting away on my Shelf Of Doom, half [...]
Dragon 1/48 Me-262A-1a/U2 (V056)
The model depicts a Messerschmitt jet that was used as a test bed for experiments on the FuG 218 'Neptune' 158-185 Mhz radar set and antennas. The results were later used for the development of the Me 262B night fighter variant.
It was one [...]
Airfix D.H. Vampire FB9 1/48
Having bought and soon after trashed the first edition of this kit back in 2021, i was somewhat reluctant to buy the reboxing. The Vampire is such an iconic aircraft and Airfix really did a somewhat uninspired job. There is a solid number [...]
Tamiya 1/48 Mustang III
The simple model that builds itself...
