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1/48 Wingsy Bf 109 E-4
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. [...]
Eduard 1:48 Spitfire Mk.XVI – (Weekend Edition) Kit #84141
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 1/48 Vigilante RA-5C
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 [...]
Video: Tamiya F-4B Phantom II Full video build (1/48th scale)
TAMIYA 1/48 McDonnell Douglas F-4B Phantom II
Item No: 61121
Highly recommended!
Thanks for watching!
All the best!
Dusan
Hasegawa A6M2b Zero
G'day all.
Just finished this one this afternoon. It's the 1/48 Hasegawa A6M2b Zero from the Rabaul boxing.
The interior is dressed up with a Quinta cockpit set and the roundels and tail codes are painted using masks. The cowl gun barrels [...]
Pro Modeler 1/48 P-39Q Airacobra
The origins of the Airacobra can be traced back in 1937, when USAAC issued a specification calling for a single-engine high-altitude interceptor. The aggressive specifications called, among others, for a liquid-cooled Allison engine [...]
KOREA: THE FORGOTTEN WAR - 1/48 Hasegawa F-86E-5(Can) – Major John Bolt, USMC
The F-86 Sabre was the first really successful US jet fighter, with 9,800 Sabres produced between 1949-60 in the U.S., Canada, Japan, Italy and Australia.
The F-86A was capable of supersonic flight in a dive, though the airplane was [...]
Hasegawa 1/48 F-16A IDF "Netz"
The venerable Hasegawa F-16A kit is an excellent platform to depict IDF's Netz (Hawk.) All you need to do is to add an appropriate decal sheet (Isradecal in this case) and a resin ACES II ejection seat. The visible cockpit area craves for [...]
P 47D Tamiya 1/48 Big A*s Bird
My first Thunderbolt build. Great kit as has been described by multiple modelers.
Aftermarket Master Model detail set.. gun barrels, pitot, and gun sight. EagleCal decals. Paint: Tamiya XF and Vallejo metals.
Everything was going well [...]
Tamiya 1/48 Brewster F2A-2 Buffalo
Here is my completed entry for the Jim Sullivan Memorial Build.
This is Tamiya's 1974 boxing of their first release of the Brewster Buffalo, Kit No. 61019. There are 3 versions that can be made, RAF, Dutch and USN.
This is a nice kit, all [...]
