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1st LT Walter "Tiger" Thomas Mayberry, USMC Reserve, VMF-123 F4U-1 "Birdcage" Corsair Bureau Number 02351, March, 4th, 1944 Tunnel Hill Massacre near Rabaul Tamiya 1/48 Corsair

by Louis Gardner on March 4, 2023 · in Aviation — 80 Comments

This is a true story about one of our local hometown "Daytona Beach" men, who went to War, and never made it back home. His name was Walter Mayberry. He was a very gifted and talented "American" football player (not [...]

19 - 1/72 Italeri RAH-66 Comanche

by Anthony Ricco on February 18, 2022 · in Aviation — 11 Comments

What a fun build this was, the Italeri 1/72 RAH-66 Comanche Only 2 prototypes were ever made and the one was black and the other Helo Drab. I decided to do something a little different and created a What if US marines version. This [...]

...from 1989, Monogram McDonnell-Douglas AV-8B Harrier II

by Gary Brantley on November 16, 2021 · in Aviation — 14 Comments

The F-102 is my most recent finished model and when it went to the airport, it was accompanied by another photo-virgin, this AV-8B Harrier II. Done in Marine markings, she was built during the spring of 1989. It was the fourth model I [...]

1/72 Academy F-8E Crusader

by Gordon Zammit on March 21, 2021 · in Aviation — 7 Comments

Another of my 2020 builds, this is the Academy F-8E built again straight from the box with the included decals, which are OK but not great. White is Revell SM301 and gull grey is Model Master.

HobbyBoss F4U-4 Corsair, 1/48. A Small Build Review of Sorts.

by Harvey R. on March 14, 2021 · in Aviation — 12 Comments

The Hobbyboss kit is proof that newer isn't necessarily better, but as an old Hasegawa F4U-4 was the first model I built upon returning to the hobby I felt that 3 years later it was time to have a stab at another F4U-4. In fact, I decided [...]

Monogram F4U-5

by Scott Nelson on September 12, 2020 · in Aviation — 10 Comments

Stopped in Hobby Lobby after visiting with my dad one day and decided to pick up this old Monogram Corsair as a bit of a nostalgia build. The age of the molds (1963 © on the belly) showed as I had to spend a lot of time cleaning up flash [...]

Tamiya 1/48th Scale Corsair

by Rick Schad on March 17, 2020 · in Aviation — 11 Comments

Well while we try and stay coronavirus free I am doing a lot of model building. Here is my finished Tamiya 1/48 scale F4-U Corsair. I have to say this was the worst fitting Tamiya kit that I have built. Weak wing assemblies, weak landing [...]

1/48 Kitty Hawk UH-1Y Venom

by Boris Grgić on February 2, 2020 · in Aviation — 4 Comments

A beutiful kit by Kitty Hawk, I recomend it to everyone who is looking for detailed and quality helicopter kit. For $40 it includes detailed cockpit panels, colored paint/decal instructions and PE parts for seatbelts and fuselage details. [...]

Kity Hawk 1/48 FJ-2 Fury

by Tom Cleaver on November 29, 2019 · in Aviation — 18 Comments

History: By the end of November, 1950, the Navy knew that its main fleet fighter, the Grumman F9F-2 Panther, was seriously outclassed by the opposition. LCDR William T. Ament of VF-112 had shot down the first MiG-15 confirmed by the Soviet [...]

1/35th USMC M1A1 Norway 2016

by Jason Vukovich on April 18, 2019 · in Armor — 8 Comments

Another Abrams, this time I built Tamiya's 1/35th M1A2 Operation Iraqi Freedom kit into a USMC M1A1 in Norway for Exercise Reindeer II in 2016. Tamiya includes the Marine M1A1 as an option in this boxing. I added a bustle rack extension [...]