1/48 scale modeling
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This build started out as the grey Italian Scheme until a friend donated the 100 hours Decals to me, so it had to become that.
It was a challenge to do the black paint in a way that made it look interesting because it still had to be clean [...]
The FW 190D is a favorite model of mine thanks to its purposeful poise and proportions in the 1/48th scale that give the look of the real aircraft. Over the years, nearly two dozen Doras accumulated in my collection. The majority are [...]
A quick project, just less than a month from opening the box, but it did have the bench completely to itself. Biggest challenge was finding the Minigun pod in my huge stash of spare ‘dangly bits’ that I’ve amassed over many year of [...]
I will assume you've heard the Lindbergh story before, so I won't entreat you all to that tale again. Instead I will share exploits and anecdotes from this specific project, one of which is finding the proverbial 'needle in a haystack' not [...]
What must it have sounded like when Kuttelwascher's British superiors first tried to pronounce his name? Unfamiliar even to German ears, Karel's family name must have been a hard nut to crack for English-speaking tongues. Pragmatically, it [...]
Photos to come later. This is first impressions:
Most important: don't believe the voices over at Hyperscale. The kit is not unbuildably wrong - not as much as the usual critics are unreformable.
The rivet pattern in the wings they are all [...]
Eduard's 1/48 P-39 Airacobra variants are excellent kits that are well detailed and look like the famous aircraft when assembled. I took out these models from my display cabinet where they rested for two decades.
As I was photographing the [...]
The M8 Howitzer was a self-propelled infantry support gun based on the M5 Light Tank chassis that was used by the US during World War II in both the ETO and PTO. It was also used by France during WWII and after the war was deployed to [...]
Dad´s finished another one.
New Eduard kit oob. A good kit like their other late 109s but still some mnor corrections to be done. Relocated the lift up holes on the rear fuselage, opened the missing shell ejector opening for the engine [...]