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The Sacrifices They Made In A ‘Nam Huey Hog

I've finally worked up the courage to make my first ever post online of my own scale model. I have my eye on the Tamiya 1/32 F4U-1A but will have to save up for that one! I blame iModeler for my longing for the 1/32 Tamiya F4U because I [...]

Hasegawa 1/48 Airacobra Mk.I

Used Ultracast seat, Vector .30 cal. gun barrels, Eduard Zoom cockpit and some resin from the Aires set. 20 mm canon barrel from brass tubing. Color of Eagles and Pollyscale paints used as well as Tamiya weathering powder. Note on the [...]

X-1 Machbuster – Revell 1/32

The Revell kit is listed as a Skill Level 2 with an overall length of 12-3/4", a wingspan: 10-5/8", with a total of 50 parts. The kit is molded in light gray, a big improvement over the original orange mold from years past. The [...]

1/48 Hobby Craft P-59A Aircomet

Hell Folks This gallery for my Bell Aircomet that was completed some time ago mid April. This is kit from Hobby Craft, that I upraded by adding some spare PE in the cockpit and resin wheels. Kit goes together straight forward, not to many [...]

Italeri 48th OH-13 Sioux

Made mods to interior and added cyclic and collective pitch horns to swashplate. Made bigger diameter skid tubes. Tie down tape was made from dental floss, painted red. Added other details like pitot tube. Comments welcome. Bo

Revell 1/32 Bell X-1

I think the first time I paid attention to "Developments in Aviation" was when I saw the October 1949 edition of the National Geographic show up at our house (it helped that my two teacher grandmothers had taught me to read at [...]

Review: Kitty Hawk 1/48 UH-1D “Huey”Build Review, Part 1

Bell UH-1D/H Iroquois (Huey) Scale: 1/48 Manufacturer: Kitty Hawk Manufacturer Website: (link) Ref.KH80154 MSRP: £37.99/$55.99 The Bell HU-1 Iroquois was developed in the 1950s for the US Army. The "HU" company development [...]

1/72 Italeri; Bell-206B Jetranger, Croatian Air Force

An easy kit to build, but it was a painting challenge. It was the tiniest model I've made (cca 12-13cm) which made masking job very difficult. For example painted sqares are 4x4mm and it took a lot of tryouts before I managed to line them [...]

Bell Aircraft X-5 – Revell 1/40th

The first aircraft to change the geometry of the wing in flight. This design was taken from the Messerschmidt P.1101 aircraft. The Revell kit goes back to the 1950s. This kit follows the norm of the time period, like moving wings and [...]

Bell X 1, 46062, USAF Muroc Air Base California 1947.

1/72 Hobbycraft, almost OOB, I replaced the pitots with brass wire, finished in Floquil F110030 and MM enamels with Tamiya X22 over kit and other decals, built 2007. This aircraft named "Glamorous Glennis" flown by Captain [...]