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Frog (Ark Models) 1/72 Martin 167 Maryland

This is the old Frog kit (F241), first released In 1973. The model I built was boxed by Ark Models. I actually started this near the end of 2023 but stopped when I was working on other builds at the time. After my recent Matchbox B-17 [...]

Martin BM-1/2 Scratch-build

Five years ago, after I’d completed building the VacWings O2U Corsair kit, I swore that I would never build another vacu-form biplane, because it was just too frustrating getting that top wing aligned properly on homemade wing struts. [...]

Novo (Frog) 1/72 Martin Baltimore

The Martin 187 Baltimore was a twin-engine light attack bomber that emerged from a French order, as a follow-up to their earlier Maryland. With the fall of France, the production series was diverted to Great Britain and, after mid-1941, [...]

A “Flying Whale” over the Black Sea: Martin B-10 Model 139WT in Turkish service

When in 1934 an icon like General Henry "Hap" Arnold enthusiastically declared the Martin B-10 to be "the air power wonder of its day", this was tantamount to elevation to the rank of aeronautical nobility. What exactly [...]

Azure FRROM Martin B-10

This is the new tool Azure FRROM Martin B-10B kit, one of three boxings they released in 2020. The B-10 was considered to be quite innovative when it first flew in 1932, featuring an internal bomb bay, enclosed crew positions, and [...]

Very early RB-57E Patrica Lynn Canberra

Hello all, This is my attempt at producing an accurate 1/72 scale rendition on the RB-57E. For many years the Italeri B-57 was regarded as the best option but unfortunately the kit is deeply flawed, the issues are too many to go into here, [...]

Martin PBM 3R Mariner, A70-11, 40 Sqn RAAF Townsville Qld 1943.

1/72 Mach2, I modified the turrets to convert to a transport, sanded and polished the canopy and painted on the frames, strengthened the fuselage join between the wings with a strip of cloth and added the mooring rails to the nose, [...]