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Airfix 2016 builds
I'm so hapy Airfix is back. Most of my work this year was on new Airfix kits, each of which I really liked.
And there's still a whole big - yoooge! - pile of red boxes.
New 1/48 Airfix P-40 B Warhawk 2nd Lt. George Welch at Pearl Harbor
Well here it's finally finished. This one is hot off the work bench, and I doubt the paint has completely dried...
My original intent was to have this P-40 completed by the Anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th. I [...]
1/76 Cromwell: Daughter & Dad Co-Build
The last of my Airfix builds for 2016, though this strictly speaking isn't one of mine, but rather my daughter Aemilia's build...I just painted it, and stuck a few more bits on when she lost interest...
Purchased back in 2015 from our [...]
1/48 Airfix P-40 Pearl Harbor 75 Years ago 2nd Lt George Welch
Here are some pictures of the build I've been scrambling to get finished. Unfortunately it doesn't look like I'm going to make my deadline that I originally set to have the model completed by. My original plan was to have the plane [...]
"Yonder they come!" December 7 (8) 1941 Philippines
Built this little dio a couple years ago, in line with my lifelong interest in the Philippine fiasco of '41-'42. Tried to represent a mad scramble of the 34th Pursuit squadron at Del Carmen field on the Day of Infamy. The opening title is [...]
Review: Airfix 1/48 P-40B/C Tomahawk II
It was hot on Don Muang Airport outside Bangkok on December 10, 1941, as the humidity increased with the rising tropic sun. The crews of the 60th, 62nd and 98th Sentais sweated to ready the 48 Mitsubishi Ki.21 Type 97 bombers (later to be [...]
Natty Gnat
Airfix's 1/72 Red Arrows Gnat Stater Set completed earlier this year (2016).
Built pretty much out of box, except I discarded the paints that came with the set & opted for Vallejo acrylics, buffed and then layered with generous coats [...]
Review: Airfix 1/48 P-40B – some background notes in review
It's likely everyone will be doing this kit soon, so here are some notes on construction and some detail information on AVG airplanes.
As the four assembly photos demonstrate, if you take care in assembly, you will not use any filler or [...]
