1/48 scale modeling
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AMT 1/48 P-40K
Since shark week continues here is my contribution. Since Tom Cleaver did an outstanding job explaining the details behind the K model I'll refer readers to his contribution. This is the old AMT kit to which I added some True Detail [...]
Another shark – 1/48 Hasegawa P-40K
The P-40K was a development from the P-40E, which continued use of the Allison V-1710 engine and appeared simultaneously with the P-40F, which used the Packard Merlin. The P-40K used the more powerful Allison V-1710-73 (F4R) engine, with [...]
Trying to keep the sharks coming….
Hasegawa P-40M. 1/48 scale. I think this is one of the meaner looking mouths. 112 Squadron, Italy 1943.Resin seat and wheels added. Pilot from old Tamiya Buffalo kit.
P-40s of the 49th Fighter Group – Part 2: New Guinea
By the summer of 1942, the Japanese threat to Australia by direct invasion was largely over, but the threat posed by the Japanese takeover of New Guinea meant that Australia could still be isolated strategically, and later invaded. Two [...]
Polikarpov I-180E-3 1/48 scratchbuild
I-180 - on such machines might have come across Luftwaffe Russian pilots in 1941. If it were not a tragic set of circumstances such as the death of several test pilots, including Valery Chkalov. I-180 is a deep modernization of I-16, and [...]
1/48 Tamiya P47C5 "Formation Monitor" 448th BG
Hi Everyone
This one has a sharkmouth!
Tamiya P47D
Ultracast Seat
Loon Models C Cowling
Superscale Decals
Tamiya / Gunze Paints
Thanks
Darren
1/48 Tamiya P47D Bubbletop "362nd Fighter Group"
Hi Everyone
Tamiya P47D Bubbletop - Super Rabbit
Barracudacals 'Mogins Maulers"
Ultracast Seat
Tamiya & Alclad paints
Comments welcome!
Looking forward to posting more. The site is excellent and the models I have seen are [...]
1/48 Monogram F-8H VF-111 Sharkmouth
Hi all, it has been quite a while since I last posted.
I hope you enjoy my F-8H conversion of the Monogram 1/48 F-8E. I used pictures I took of a Crusader at the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, FL. The earlier models of Crusader had a [...]
P-40s of the 49th Fighter Group – Part 1 (Early Days)
Today’s Air Force has decided to emphasize its history as a means of unit inspiration.
This has resulted in units with real “history” as the service decides which unit designations will continue in active service, so that one finds [...]
Classic Monogram warbirds
The Curtis P-40B and the Mitsubishi A6M5 Type 0 in 1/48 scale. Both of these were built at least 20 years ago but I only got them out to the airport last year for a photo session. Both reveal my limitations as a model builder back then, [...]
