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Airfix 1/72 Mustang P-51D with wrong decals
Hi There,
It was decided by Innis that our next project would be a Mustang, but an RAF one. I had a couple of Mustangs picked up from Aldi, but no RAF decals. I managed to get some cheaply but they were for a Mustang III.
Still, The Wee [...]
F/A-18E Super Hornet 'VFA-115 Eagle CAG 2015
This small kit from Hasegawa is very good for 1/72 scale. Tell me what you think about it!
1/72nd Hasegawa Ki-43 II Oscar
Well, there I was waiting for decals to arrive from Hannant's for my Monogram Fw-190 when I came across an old Hasegawa Ki-43 sitting in the consignment section at my local hobby store. I remember these early Hasegawa kits were simple to [...]
B-25D Mitchell
So here's my take on the Airfix B-25. One of my all-time favourite aircraft. Let's start with the kit, I could do pages on the fit, the quality of the engineering, the 'buildability' etc, etc. So long story short, folks, it's bl**dy superb [...]
F-20 Tigershark (Hasegawa 1/72)
F-20 was last and non-production modification of a famous F-5 fighter. It's a 1/72 Hasegawa kit, mainly OOB build excluding custom gun barrels, gun sight and seat belts. Painting scheme is the "what if" based on a late darker [...]
AMT / Ertl Northrop X/YB-35 in 1/72 Scale
This is the AMT / Ertl X/YB-35, a very large kit when built, but a unique subject. This kit takes some work, think of it as a limited run effort and you will be well prepared. I opened up the wing leading edge inlets and the wing slots [...]
Frog 1/72 Fairey Barracuda Mk. II
This was a project that started as "I'll just do a little clean-up on this old kit," and turned into a major project. I'm only posting the finished project pics here, but for details, especially the interior construction, you [...]
Gloster Gladiator – Norway, April 1940
This is the old but very nice Heller kit of the Gloster Gladiator, with the markings of the Norwegian Air Force as they tried to defend their country against the German invasion in April 1940.
I build this kit years ago, but didn't add [...]
1/72 Horsa Glider. D-Day, Operation Deadstick – Part 3 of 3
Building the Diorama
This post is part of a group of 3, the first being the construction of the glider and the second the painting of the figures.
The scene represents the “Operation Deadstick", which occurred precisely on this same [...]
