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Copper State Models' 1/48 Hydravion is a challenging and work intensive build. Like CSM's 1/32 Caudron G.III the surface texture of plastic is excellent. However, the instructions are suggestive and you may require additional references to [...]
This is the out of production ProModeler 1/48 Focke-Wulf Ta 154 Moskito, kit#5959, 1999 issue. Revell Monogram Models produced the molds in South Korea and first issued the kit in 1999. Dragon Models later issued the same molds in their [...]
1/48 USN F-4 Phantom II
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Nikon D7500; Focus Stacking using Helicon Focus; Editing using LightRoom
Kit: Tamiya 121
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This is another great kit from Tamiya. It isn’t perfect though and after [...]
My dad finished the next double pack. After the two F3F, now the second F2A. Another contribution to the Jim Sullivan Memorial GB.
Classic Airframes kit, which as expected needed some more work than the Tamiya F2A-2. Canopy parts didn´t [...]
Here's a Dora Wings build from a couple of months ago. The Master M.9 Mk.I was a 2-seat wooden trainer with an oval section fuselage covered with a plywood skin using a semi-monocoque approach, invited gull wing, and powered with a [...]
I used the Tamiya kit to represent an FG-1D Corsair flown by LTC Donald K. Yost of VMF-351 aboard the USS Cape Gloucester, July-August, 1945. It's my contribution to the Jim Sullivan Group Build initiated by Louis Gardner, so thanks Louis [...]
Polikarpov I-16 was the world's first low-wing cantilever monoplane fighter with retractable landing gear to attain operational status and as such, introduced a new vogue in fighter design. This fact alone makes the type to an obvious [...]
This is a first rate kit. The parts fit and and molding quality are excellent. Additional details added by me were mostly in the cockpit area. I opened the port side sliding panel on the canopy hood while also adding knobs to the panels. [...]
Spitfire RW393, 601 Squadron RAuxAF, 1949. This aircraft took part in the Cooper Air Race of 1949, a competition for RAuxAF squadrons, named after W/C Geoffrey Cooper M.P.. A great kit with the usual Eduard over engineering in a few [...]
Trumpeter's Vigilante was never on my list due to reports on shape and fit issues related to the kit. Nonetheless, I received this model from a friend and promptly built it.
In spite of the bad reputation, it builds to an impressive [...]