kitbashing Database

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1/48 Canadian CF-5D – an old school kitbash

by Colin Latta on January 11, 2018 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

Here's an oldie from over 20 years ago. It's a 1/48 Testors F-5A wings and fuselage, a Monogram cockpit section (heavily modified) and canopy, with the nose and tip tanks vacuformed over balsa wood masters. Everything was rescribed, and [...]

MonoFix SHAR FRS.1

by John Martincevic on October 21, 2016 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

Before Kinetic released the British 1st Gen. SHARs the only good way to build one was a kit-bash. Here is my bash from 2013/14. There is too much to describe here so I have included a link to my WIP on BM. This is old school modeling [...]

Airfix 1/48 Supermarine Seafire XV Kitbash

by Marek Halas on December 7, 2014 · in Aviation · 23 ≡

An interesting if somewhat futile exercise in kitbashing a Supermarine Seafire XV: This was made from the leftover wings from my Airfix Supermarine Seafire XVII and grafting it onto the modified fuselage of Airfix's Supermarine Spitfire [...]

Kitbashing a 1/48 Spitfire XIVc

by Tom Cleaver on August 30, 2013 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

In 1/48, there is no really good injection-molded kit of the Spitfire XIV. The Academy kit is too deep in side profile, as well as way too "fat" in plan view between the trailing edge of the wing and the tail surfaces. One can [...]

F2G Super Corsair Racer Kit Bash

by George Tufnail on November 27, 2012 · in Aviation · 5 ≡

This was one of my first forays into AMS and kit bashing. I started with a Special Hobbies 1/48 F2G Racer, and added the wings from an Academy 1/48 F4U-1A, because I wanted the flaps down, and I wasn't about to chop up a Tamiya kit. I do [...]