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A Guilty Pleasure: Airfix's 1/72 Spitfire Mk.1a Starter Set
To keep with the theme of things Airfix this is a recent out of box build of their Spitfire Mk1a starter set: Purchased for the princely sum of $10 a year or so ago from my local Aldi Supermarket in the Northern Suburbs of Brisbane, this [...]
Sukhoi Su-30M2 'Flanker-G', 4th prototype
About the aircraft:
Sukhoi Su-30 ‘Flankers’ are a two-seat multi-role derivative of the famous Su-27 fighter. There are two main versions of Su-30s. Irkut plant produces the canard and TVC equipped Su-30MK series (in use with Algeria, [...]
Consolidated PBY 5A Catalina, A24-113, 113 ASR Flight RAAF Cairns Qld 1945.
1/72 Academy, my second Catalina, I modified and added a few things, finished in MM enamels with Future and Micro flat over Aussie, Model decal and spares.
Grumman F9F 8B Cougar, Blue Angels, US Navy Pensacola NAS Florida 1955.
1/72 Hasegawa, My first Blue Angel, their seventh, finished in Alclad, MM and Testors enamels with Future over kit decals.
Ki-78 "Ken" protoype (AZ 1/72)
The Kawasaki Ki-78 (Ken or Ken III or Kensan III) was a high-speed research aircraft developed to investigate laminar profile wings with high wing loadings. First prototype was build in 1941 and the project was officially terminated after [...]
1/72 Bristol Blenheim Mk.I
This is the recent Airfix kit. I built it straight from the box and finished it with Humbrol enamels. I did use an Eduard masking set to help deal withe many small canopy panes. They really are tiny in 1/72! This kit is very well [...]
Water Wings group build – Cessna 172 floatplane, Arii 1/72
Here's my warmup for the group build. This is the Arii Cessna 172, which contains parts for both wheels and floats. The model represents a late 1970's Skyhawk equipped with Wipline floats. Fit was ok but not great, and the decals were [...]
1/72 Revell UH-1D “SAR”
Here comes a build from 2015.
First of all, sorry fro the poor lighting issue with the pics.
Not much to say, but to be honest, the only good things with this particular kit were the box art and the decals.
Never have I seen such poor [...]
Su-35S 1/72
Hello, dear colleagues.
I put on your court its next model of aircraft, which already made a lot of noise on the world stage. A prototype was Board 901. But in its short history it has undergone several changes, at least it looks like the [...]
Video: FULL VIDEO BUILD ACADEMY F-4J PHANTOM II
Excellent Academy's 1/72 F-4J Phantom II 'VF-84 Jolly Rogers' kit (2016).
Tools and paints used in this video:
Mr. Cement Deluxe
Mr. Cement S
Mr. Surfacers 1500 black.
Colors only Mr.Color and Mr. Hobby Paints by Gunze/GSI CREOS JAPAN. [...]
