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Spitfire Mk22 and the curse of eBay
Hi All,
This is my Airfix 1/72 Spitfire Mk22 New Tooling.
This model was a Dream to build absolutely no problems at all i didn't add anything but paint its straight OOB i built it as bit of a experiment really to firstly see how quickly i [...]
FAA Corsair MkII
Hi All, Here is my 1/72 scale Hobby Boss Corsair F4U-1a or as the FAA called it
Corsair MkII.
The kit comes pretty much done its basically like a snap together with a minimal parts count
i like these kits a lot! i treat them like a [...]
EF-10B Skyknight
Hi All, Just completed the Douglas EF-10B Skyknight Sword's 1/72 kit
Actually went together quite well my only moan would be that there wasn't much in the way of locating points when fitting the cockpit and the instructions are a little [...]
iModeler Review: Airfix 1/72 Hawker Hurricane Mk 1
Presenting the "new" 1/72 Airfix (early) Mk 1 Hurricane. This is an upgraded release of the first mark 1 that was made available at the end of 2013. The main difference with this release is you have the dehaviland 3 blade prop [...]
Airfix 1/72 Harvard II
This is the old Airfix Harvard II (T-6 Texan) kit of years gone by. It's a simple, nice fitting kit which I did OOB, without a lot of hassle. As old as it was, I was still able to use the kit decals. The story of "why" is [...]
Junkers D.I. 1/72 Roden
Hello!
Inside cabin papered corrugated foil. Added handmade items. Such as appliances.
Corrected configuration wings. Markings painted using stencils.
Guns set "MiniWorld".
Best regards, Vlad.
P.S. Sorry for the "my [...]
Mig-29UB
Here is Heller's Mig-29UB. It is quite good both in fit and shape. I had already built the Airfix single seater, and when I got this from a friend, I thought that I will make one of those infamous Moldovian Mig-29UB for which I have two [...]
5 Significant New Releases from Eduard for 2014
The hands-down biggest news from Eduard for 2014 will be an entirely new-tool 1/48 Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6 Gustav. The company has been showing the first completed sprue of the new mould at the Nuremberg Toy fair, but the final release [...]
F3D-2 Skyknight, Sword 1/72nd
Fifth for the year so far.
Sword's F-3D Skyknight. Nice model, I did have to separate the intakes from the main engine bays in order to properly blend the intakes with milliput - but honestly it's difficult to see how Sword could have done [...]
Matchbox 1/72 Hawker Hunter Mk 12
This Hawker Hunter Mk 12, XE531 was used by the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) for equipment development trials (fly by wire) 1980-81.
The idea came from the old soft cover edition of "Flying Colors", a state of the art [...]
