1/48 scale modeling
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Although not a gem kit, the build is not complicated and the final result is very pleasing. (Bomb got loose during the photo session.)
This is my second of three Avenger posts.
The TBM variants of the Avenger were manufactured by the Eastern Division of General Motors during WWII. One of the external differences from the TBF (built by Grumman) was that the TBM had a [...]
My second Moskito was painted according to a more sophisticated scheme I came across in the few remaining photographs of the existing prototypes.
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First model finished in 2025. No particular problem
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Next one finished by my dad. It´s the "Foreign Users" 2022 edition of the 2020 released Dora Wings kit. The Dora Wings kits are somewhere betwen short-run and mainstream. Better to build than real short runs but still tricky. [...]
One of Eduard's finest painted in the Iraq Air Force scheme.
Another 1:48 Airfix Canberra. This one a Martin B-57. Challenge for me was (somewhat) matching tail color to tip tank decals. Close, so close... The black gloss finish accomplished by painting with primer and applying many coats of [...]
This kit was built some years ago. Shortly after AM released their TBF-1C, Cutting Edge released a resin conversion to back-date the kit to a TBF-1. The main difference was the -1 had a .30 gun in the cowling where the -1C had two .50 [...]
Decals from Superscale 48-0516, pitot tube from plastic rod and other than that, straight out of the box. Used Vallejo Model Air Aluminum and IJA Dark Green for top and bottom airbrushed with an old Badger 150. Flaps are primer grey [...]
Two of AmTech's P-40 simple and low priced model. The first depicting the famous Aleutian Tiger flown by Major John Chennault, the CO of 343 FG 11th FS during 1943. The second model represents the mount of Lt. Bob Vought, 9th FS, 49th FG.