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Hasegawa J2M Raiden 雷電 Lightning Bolt “Jack”
This is Hasegawa’s classic Raiden kit from 1977. It is a good kit for its time, but suffers from basic cockpit detail and shallow wheelwells. I replaced both on my build and plunge-molded the sliding portion of the canopy. There is [...]
Hobbycraft 1/72 CF-100 (Hypothetical)
This kit called to me from its shelf in the garage, and I wanted to build something different. I sometimes build a kit in a paint scheme that never actually existed, and this is what happened here. To make it more plausible in my mind, I [...]
Long range Kamikaze
Story is that near the end of war Japanese joined planes damaged in ground attacks and put simple bomb on nose, JATO rockets for take off and worn out engine for longer range.
The base is laminate flooring, wall is styrodur, grass is [...]
Zvezda 1/72 La-5fn
My April no-frills build. This one took more than a month as it turned out to be a putty monster. The wing root areas took several applications of putty and sanding to get them to look good. Fortunately, the wings didn’t have a lot of [...]
Avia CS-199
Following my friend Dennis’s lead, I’m working on shrinking the stash with monthly “no-frills” builds: out of the box, no major mods, minimal weathering, etc. My May “NFB” is this KoPro 1/72 Avia CS-199. Not a lot of detail in [...]
1/72 Hasegawa F/A-18E Super Hornet
I started this kit probably close to 10 years ago and put it away due to all the sanding filling and rescribing I was having to do. I pulled it out a few months ago and decided to finish it. This is the 1/72 Hasegawa F/A-18E Super Hornet [...]
1/72 Yakovlev Yak-3 Revell
This is a 1/72 scale Yakovlev Yak-3 by Revell in the colours of a machine from 18. GIAP, East Prussia, 1945.
This was a pretty straight-forward build OOB. Everything fit together pretty nicely. I was well impressed with the full colour, [...]
AZmodel 1/72 DHC-1 Chipmunk T.10 – WP860 – No. 12 AEF Turnhouse
Hi There.
One of the reasons I got back into modelling was to build some or all of the aircraft that I was lucky enough to fly in during my time in the Air Cadets.
So, here is my first flight and one of the planes that I learned to fly in. [...]
UH-34D Seahorse of HT-8, 1/72 Italeri.
This is Italeri's 1/72 UH-34D, using Print scale decals of a USN training squadron, which when I first ordered them I had thought they were for the Seahorses used in Antarctica. I always liked the Deep Freeze aircraft. I decided to do the [...]
1/72 Hasegawa Ki67 Type 4 Hiryu (Peggy)
Here's my Peggy that I built for the Empire of Japan group build here on iModeler. Everything went together well. The wings fit so well that you can leave them off for painting. Some who have built this kit had trouble with a large step [...]
