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1/48 Late Mk I Hurricane Airfix
After buying a reference book about the Hurricane that had artwork for this a/c I had to try to build it. After a lot of research I found the book artwork to be very inaccurate! I finally located two grainy photos of the a/c online. With [...]
Airfix 1/72nd Westland Sea King HAR 3
The newish Airfix Sea Kings are really good kits and build well. Whilst they maybe lack a bit of rivet detail and appear a bit more smoother skinned that real Sea Kings, in 1/72 that a liveable issue.
One thing Airfix did not so well is [...]
1/48 Airfix P-40B
Another shelf of doom project finished . I present the awesome little 1/48 Airfix P-40B flown by 2nd Lt. George Welch , 47th Pursuit Squadron ,15th Pursuit Group Wheeler Field , Oahu ,Hawaii December 7th 1941 . Painted with Tamiya and Mr [...]
Airfix kit from 1953
Just thought you'd like to see what was surely one of the earliest plastic kits made... the Spitfire Mark 1 in blue plastic !
My dilemma now is; do I take it out of the bag and make it, or should I save it for posterity?
The other photo [...]
1/48 Airfix Sepecat Jaguar Operation Granby
Years ago, I got an Airfix Sepecat Jaguar and loaded up on all the Paragon resin parts for it. Then I entered a phase of major downsizing and decided to sell it off. Last year i decided to get one again, because the Revell AG boxing was [...]
Martin B 57B Canberra, 52-1590, The Black Knights 38th Bomb Wing USAFE Laon AFB France 1956.
1/72 Airfix, I modified a few things, pilot seats narrower, removed the hinges from all control surfaces, the tail-plane joints, engine jet-pipes and replaced some antennae, finished in MM and Humbrol enamels with Future over kit and other [...]
RNLI lifeboat station “Stornoway” on the Isle of Lewis
RNLI LIFEBOAT STATION “STORNOWAY” ON THE ISLE OF LEWIS
(RNLI= ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION) (UK)
Severn Class Lifeboat:
The Severn Class is an all-weather lifeboat, that was introduced into the fleet in the year 1995. The last [...]
The new Aifix P-51 Mustang in 1:48 scale (extra photos added)
With the new issue of Airfix Model World Magazine now out, I can post some photos of the all new Airfix 1:48 scale Mustang. This is a superb kit, the detail is excellent, some very clever engineering involved too to get nice a seamless [...]
Airfix 1/72 C-47
So, this is a little out of my wheelhouse, as I build primarily 1/48 postwar jets. The origin of this particular build started off quiet unexpectedly, as is often the case with me. While perusing a thread on a Facebook group (Cold War [...]
Airfix Bf-109 E3 1/72 “Forced Landing”
My newest project is the Airfix BF-109 E in 1/72 scale. The figures are from Zvezda, named "british recon team". I airbrushed my models with "Mr. Hobby" colors and did some dust dirt with "mig ammo" (airplanes [...]
