Hasegawa model kits
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"Cobra II” at the 1946 Thompson Trophy Race:
The P-39 known as “Cobra II,” was a Bell P-39Q-10BE, AAF 42-20869, assigned to the 430th Army Air Force Base Unit, Ephrata AAB, Washington, a Combat Crew Training Station, in April [...]
Here are a hand full of photos of my Hasegawa, 1/48th scale F-104C. It depicts FG-891 of the 479th Tactical Fighter Wing. Because of it's colorful scheme, this Starfighter is probably one of the most photographed airframes. What can I [...]
This was supposed to be a quick build to restore mojo and get something finished off my bench.
It turned out that the tooling is from 1969 so there were quite some work to complete the build of this bird... The kit is from 2001 with [...]
SOD 1/48 A6M5c Zero finlally finished . Painted with mr Color paints. I used the master brass gun barrels. Weathered with oils and prismacolor pencils 🙂
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Felina! (recognize that, Breaking Bad people?) Best finale ever from the best show ever. Anyway this is my finale, less spectacular for sure, but the Shiden-Kai is done.
Hasegawa makes it so easy to do a nice looking model. Only screw-ups [...]
Additional work to the kit includes:
Seat belts, Eduard
brake lines, lead wire
flaps sanded flush and installed in the closed position
markings done by homemade stencils and paint, no decals used
Plane represents an aircraft from the 77th [...]
Finally finished another of my Phantom builds. I used a set of dry transfers for the stenciling and panel numbers (at least 50 hours of effort - details in the build thread). Don't know that I want to do that again! Added some pilots and [...]
While I've a pretty extensive Luftwaffe library, I got ZIP on the pacific, so this is a truly OOB build- kit decals (Grrr... thick Hinomarus 🙁 ), no A/M, not even an Eduard mask!
JAAF Green is Tamiya which performed brilliantly, most [...]
For years modelers dreamed of a well engineered 1/48 Spitfire model that was accurate and well detailed. Finally, Eduard answered those calls with a very nice kit, and have continued to entertain us with various versions of this iconic [...]
Had an unfinished Hasegawa kit and finally decided to complete it in the fierce markings of Lt Arlie Blood "The Bug",which was shot down by Flak when attacking ground targets,its pilot surviving the ordeal...
The mouth decal took [...]