Tamiya 1/48 F-14A VF-41 “Fast Eagle 102”
Tamiya awesome 48 scale kit with Quickboost seats, Wheeliant wheels and Eduard RBF tags. Furball decals. Finished with Gunze Aqueous with an oil wash.
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Top Secret for 50yrs. Royce Williams Korean War story for Panther fans..
A follow up interview to TC's story... of Williams accomplishments in the Korean War as a Navy Pilot in his Grumman Panther taking on 7 Migs and downing 4 of them.
Its neat to read about William's story when it broke out and then the frosting[...]
Eduard 1/48 F6F-5 Hellcat
An excellent model for construction, a rare Eduard model that you can say "shake and bake". I even built 1/72 Eduard Hellcat, and in this scale is also a great plastic.
Grumman EA 6B Prowler
This aircraft belonged to the VAQ 133 WIZZARDS 2007 . It's a Kinetic model. Cockpit of Aires in resin. It has been a difficult model to mount due to the large number of failures, bad connections, and a terrible instruction sheet. Attaching the c[...]
Trumpeter 1/48 F9F-2
I had all kinds of trouble with the fit of this kit...probably self-inflicted. This is not my best build. There are all kinds of mistakes on it. I used the Pavla cockpit and nose gear well. The cockpit opening is too small and that puts the [...]
Grumman Hellcat F6F-5N, Hasegawa 1/48
Classic model from Hasegawa. Have tried to use an old resin kit for the cockpit but it was a terrific fail :-P I finally used the original part from the kit.
I used for the first time paint from MIG Ammo. I had some issue with the Navy Blue col[...]
F-14D Tomcat ♠️ 1/72
Hi everyone I'm back with a new model ! It is the F-14D from Revell. The kit is 22 years old but still very good the details perfects. The carrier deck is my construction too. The pilots and deck members are from Italeri. This project took me on[...]
Telford kit news: Airfix announces a 1/24 scale Grumman F6F Hellcat
Reporting live from IPMS Scale Modelworld in Telford, here is the newest announcement from Airfix, fresh from the show floor.
We have been expecting something big and impressive, and the choice of 1/24 scale does not disappoint :) Having said[...]
Academy F-14A 1:48 (1988 tool)
I must say I was always intimidated by builds of modern aircraft but this build changed my mind. The kit is from 1988 and does not stand up to the new Tamiya kit but I managed to have a lot of fun with it. Lots of fit issues and old decals but I[...]
1/32 Trumpeter F6F-5 Hellcat “Fleet Air Arm 1944-45”
Project Complete: 1/32 Trumpeter Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat "Fleet Air Arm 1944-45"
Markings: Fleet Air Arm Squadron assigned to the HMS Indomitable from 1944-45, Pacific Theater.
Kit: 1/32 Trumpeter 1/32 Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat
Build Duration: Apx[...]
