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John Glenn's F-86F Mig Mad Marine, Academy 1/72

Hi all after a long time of inactivity as a consequence of lot health issues, finally back on track :). Finished Academy F-86 in colours of John Glenn machine from Korea war period. Academy is well known "plastic", good details, [...]

1/35 Academy OH-58 Kiowa

First out of two Kiowas in my stash is completed. I've started simultaneous build of both Academy and Revell models. One is for myself, other one is commission build. Since I have to put commission build model in more or less [...]

TIGER I "DAS REIGH KURSK"

The kit is the old ACADEMY full interior. There are many newer kits and offcourse much better. Old kit with small fitting problems. The tracks are piece by piece a little tricky. The model painted with Tamiya Colours and Winsor varnish. I [...]

Academy B-17F: Mediterranean Ferret

I am always looking for planes to build that are a little out of the ordinary. I came across an article in Aviation Historian about B-17Fs that were used in the Mediterranean as ferrets. A ferret is an aircraft that is designed to [...]

Video: B-29 Superfortress - Academy 1/72Aircraft Model

Academy 1/48 P-47D Bubbletop

After completing Lt Richard W. Lander's P-40F, who was assigned to the 315th FS, 324th FG, I was asked if I could also build a P-47 he flew. His Group went from N Africa to Italy then on to Southern France where their P-40F's were replaced [...]

P-51C "Lucky Thirteen"

Something different from the Bebout Curtiss P-40 Factory, Jackie Cochran's Lucky Thirteen P-51C. If you're not familiar with Jackie Cochran one can summarize her as an aviator, test pilot, spokesperson as well as a successful [...]

23 - 1/48 Academy Lavochkin Lav-7

This was a pretty straight forward build, went together easily enough and had no real issues. I decided to do the Aircraft of Captain Aleksei Alelyukhin. Painted red by his mechanics and flew over Berlin as it fell to the Russians to dig [...]

Academy 1/48 F-14A Tomcat

Calling this one finally completed. My Academy 1/48 F-14A Tomcat. I am not weathering it as it was a CAG plane and all the photos I have of it in this scheme show a clean aircraft. Decals used are the stencils & missiles from the kit [...]

Academy 1/48th Bf 109 T2TragerJager

The T2 was the 109 designed to fly from the decks of the Graf Zepplin. The T2 was a variant of of the E3/4 but with a longer wingspan, to aid taking off from the shorter deck. Although the T2 was never used from the deck of a carrier, [...]