1/72 scale modeling
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2021, a new year, a new decade, hopefully good for everyone, my models finished last year.
1/72 aircraft not in order MiG 17 = MiG GB; AH 1G, Spitfire 8 = Teeth & Fangs GB; Sikorsky HRS 1 = Korea GB; Fokker F7 = iModeler movies GB; DH 100, DH 112 = de Havilland 100 GB; B 47 G, Northrop Delta, Bristol Beaufighter = RAAF; 1/12 [...]
2020 Vision
Happy New Year Fellow Modelers.
Did short articles on some of these, but the Twin Otter and Mosquito are technically works in progress as they are meant to be in dioramas for display at an outdoor education centre (they are posted in [...]
Academy 1/72 OV-10D Bronco – Desert Storm
This is my entry for the Desert Storm group build. I added details to the cockpit - some bulkhead at the rear deck, boxes, cables, ejection handles, etc, knowing it would be pretty visible under that expansive canopy. Nothing extra to the [...]
A Heller of a Spitfire
When I started going to model shows with my modeling guru Archaeo Bob, prior to restarting the hobby, I picked up a lot of $5 specials from the vendor tables. Came to realize you definitely get what you pay for when it came to actually [...]
Focke Wulf 190 F-8 Yugoslav partisan 1/72 Eduard
Hi all
probably the last model finished in this year, Eduard Focke-Wulf 190 F-8 airplane captured by Yugoslav Partisan forces (Yugoslavia 1945).
The only remaining examples of the Fw190-F-8 of the two preserved, one is located in the [...]
North American P-51 Mustang series – Raúl Hrubisko
Hi to all.
It has been a long time since I have not posted here. I will try to correct that mistake.
During the second half of the year my father and I have been working in one of the largest series of our collection after the Spitfire [...]
Tie Silencer V3: a rather fictional report
The development of the Tie Silencer
The term "tie fighter" is associated with qualities such as agility, speed and firepower, but also with the idea of pitiless replaceability. As long as this concept fitted into a system of rule [...]
Airfix Supermarine Spitfire Battle of Britain + addons 1/72
Hello modellers!
Here are my two tiny little Spitfires from Airfix. I wanted to build a Battle of Britain scene where pilots wait for their next scramble, as shown on many historic pictures. This is becaue I like it to give my models a [...]
F-15C Aggressor 1/72 Italeri
Hi all
finished one more model from "history line".
Old Italeri mold in new livery, can not beat Hasegawa one but i like it a lot, maybe just memories...
Not to bother more as model is more than well known, AK Real colors, [...]
How a fishing net and a pole saved a world record flight: Vickers Wellesley Mk.I LRDU L2680, November 1938
About the Vickers Wellesley Mk.I
The Vickers Wellesley is astonishing at first sight - and still has remarkable things in store for the second, third and even fourth glance. I personally always find this feature interesting. So when I came [...]
