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Brewster F2A-2 Buffalo – 1/48 Tamiya

by Andrew H on December 9, 2021
in Aviation — 24 Comments

So this is the second build that I had promised a few days ago, another kit saved from the proverbial Shelf of Doom. This Tamiya F2A-2 kit, much like the Hobbycraft P-36 that came before, was purchased for something like $6 many years ago, [...]

Matchbox 1/76 “ Memorial Day “ 3 Bloods and a Priest “

by Bernard Bedeur on May 30, 2021
in Uncategorized — 12 Comments

May 31 is Memorial Day in the US. One of 2 Federal Hollidays honouring the Armed Forces. In Light of that, and not having posted for a while I thought to show some of the really small Matchbox kits I have been dabbling in between trying [...]

Off the SoD – Special Hobby Brewster B-239 “Taivaan Helmi”

by Tom Cleaver on February 5, 2021
in Aviation — 22 Comments

How a company that produced buggies during the 19th Century and was virtually moribund before it was bought, resuscitated, and turned into a manufacturer of naval aircraft managed with its first design - the B-239 - to come in ahead of [...]

Hasegawa, 1:48 Scale P-40, “Kittyhawk III” (Longtail ‘K’), RNZAF

by Frederick J Seitz III on September 23, 2019
in Uncategorized — 16 Comments

I think Hasegawa's line of P-40 kits are pretty much, the best of the type in this scale. They are loaded with fine detail and the fit is pretty good throughout, suffice to say, they are kits that have been very well engineered. They have [...]

On This Day…May 24th.

by david leigh-smith on May 24, 2019
in Photo Collections — 12 Comments

The Battle of the Denmark Strait was a short, intense encounter that was a humanitarian disaster for the Royal Navy. In the early hours of May 24th 1941, the HMS Hood was sunk and with 1,418 souls on board, a staggering and scarcely [...]

Hasegawa 1/48 F6F-5 Hellcat U.S.S. Hornet VF-17 “Jolly Rogers”

by bob mack on May 22, 2019
in Aviation — 22 Comments

the VF-17 "Jolly Rogers" were formed on January 1,1943 at NAS Norfolk under the command of LT. Commander John T. "Tommy" Blackburn as CO and Roger Hedrick as XO...Blackburn was a Buffalo and F4F pilot but VF-17 was the [...]

Brewster F2A Buffalo Tamiya 1/48 – Aicraft Model

by Boris Rakic on October 16, 2018
in Aviation — 13 Comments

Another beauty by PLASMO. The old (ancient?) Tamiya kit gets a proper treatment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9CLEekORi8 · on youtube

Brewster F2A-2 Buffalo (Tamiya 1/48)

by Dmitry Stropalov on May 19, 2018
in Aviation — 40 Comments

Hi everybody! This is my latest build, and this one is something special. First of all, this is an iModeler build, started back in October 2015, and it took 2 years and 7+ months to be completed. And all I can say – thank you everybody, [...]

Deathtrap

by René Hieronymus on September 2, 2017
in Uncategorized — 11 Comments

Scale 1:72 Building time: 69hrs Here is my latest creation, once again what I love the most: a diorama. After some changes I called this one “Deathtrap” for obvious reason. It depicts a few Marines which have discovered an abandoned [...]

Brewster F2A-3, "Buffalo"

by Frederick J Seitz III on June 3, 2017
in Aviation — 13 Comments

Next, is the 1/48th scale Tamiya kit. This model represents the aircraft flown by Major Floyd B. "Red" Parks, C.O. of VMF-221. Major Parks led the young pilots of VMF-221 against the incoming Japanese strike force. The inital [...]