1/72 scale modeling
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1/72 ICM OV-10D
This is my IPMS review of the ICM 1/72 OV-10D Gulf War version. This was a nice build but you can read my particulars at the IPMS USA Review:
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IT is nicely detailed but has few things to watch out for; nose weight to avoid tail [...]
A Captured Zero, Airfix A6M2b 1/72
‘Sticking’ to the Rising Decals MM72-0101 Dying Suns Pt.2 decal sheet, I wanted to have a captured Zero in my display. The decal sheet called for a Nakajima built A6M2 m.21 and specified the aircraft had type 99 Mark II cannons - I had [...]
Sparviero
Italeri kit with 'no additives' unless you count the outstanding Sky decals. Paints are Mr Color lacquers and Tamiya acrylics all mixed until 'they look right' - no exact formulas here.
I temporarily tack-glued the ventral gondola section [...]
Heller 1/72 J-29 Tunnan
I love all of the Swedish jets, and decided to start my Swedish collection with the Tunnan. The original kit in my stash was a Matchbox kit, but when I opened it and saw how toy-like it was, I tossed it and found a Heller kit on ebay. The [...]
Fighting Colours
Fighting Colours is a Kookaburra title by Michael JF Bowyer covering Royal Air Force camouflage and markings from 1937 to 1975. Chapter six addresses the RAF's shift to the offensive in 1941. In a subheading titled Important Colour Changes [...]
De Havilland Mosquito PR.XVI Airfix 1/72 25th Bomb Group Rcn England 1944.
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This is my summary project of the entire model section regarding Operation Frantic, i.e. the mission From England and Italy to Soviet-occupied Ukraine in 1944. This time it was a special mission, because Frantic VII was a supply [...]
TBD-1 Devastator month
My last project for TBD Devastator month is repainting my old (2017) George Gay 8-T-14 TBD into the correct colors and markings for Lt Cdr James Brett’s T-1 on the Lexington at Coral Sea.
I had two sets of T1 decals, but neither had [...]
Revell 1/72 Hawker Hunter P1109A – with FreightDog Conversion.
The Revell FGA.9 goes together really well and with the lovely conversion kit from FreightDog Models this builds up very nicely
Only a modicum of filler was required with only one bit of actual surgery.
This enables a completely ham-fisted [...]
1/72"George Gay" Midway TBD-1 Devastator - v.2
Seven years ago I completed my first aircraft builds, a trio of U.S. Navy aircraft to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Midway. I modeled one of each of the three types of carrier planes that operated from the U.S. [...]
