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DHC 6 300 Twin Otter, VH-OHP 527, 173 Sqn AAAC Oakey Qld 2000.
1/72 Matchbox, I have added a few antennae, finished in MM enamels, Alclad polished aluminum spinners, Hawkeye decals, one of their better sets, Future and Humbrol matt Cote over the leading edges. leased to Australian Army between 1998 [...]
F-3D snoopy flys again
This the 1/72 Matchbox old F-3D, so old that the decals were useless other wise I would have used them. I kit bashed the decals from various sheets to represent one from Marine squadron VMCJ-1 operated out of Da Nang S.Viet. by then the [...]
Heinkel He-115, Matchbox 1/72
My first completed build of the new year is the venerable Matchbox He-115, a kit that I think was first issued the year I graduated from high school back in the '70's. It's also the first model to come out of my new model room. Built [...]
Matchbox/Revell 1/72 Dornier Do28D Skyservant
This was an old, simple Matchbox kit, that I threw together, for a change of pace. I thought a "civilian" paint scheme would look decent, compared to the other Skyservants I've done.
It's a decent kit for it's age, and the only [...]
Just an old 1/72 Matchbox P-51D
Simply put, I had the model and the decals laying around, and was looking for fast time killer. The result matched the time spent.
HMCS Snowberry (Pennant K166)
This is the Flower Class Corvette, HMS Snowberry, although more correctly listed as HMCS Snowberry, as it was one of ten Corvettes lent to the Canadians in 1941 for convoy escort and anti-submarine duties in the North Atlantic.
Details of [...]
HMCS Snowberry – Revell 1/72 Scale
HMCS SNOWBERRY was commissioned at Quebec City on November 26, 1940. HMCS SNOWBERRY arrived at Halifax on December 13 for further work and sailed February 9, 1941, with convoy HX.108 for the U.K. There she completed fitting out at [...]
“Pachydermia” – somewhere in burma 1942 – Supermarine Walrus aka “Shagbat” finished with diorama
This is the last part of my Matchbox Walrus MK I. build. The diorama - where an elephant tows a walrus 😀 - finished so the name "Pachydermia" :).
I made a lot effort into this kit but the ugliness and the same time somehow [...]
Shagbat MK I. 1:72 – Matchbox – Part 3. – making a diorama
The plan - building a Walrus in 1:72 - based on a photo I found in an article and I fell in love with the theme, an elephant tows a Walrus somewhere in Burma (well this is my third plane towing diorama so may something wrong with me 🙂 [...]
Shagbat MK I. 1:72 – Matchbox – Part 2.
Let's continue the Walrus story. Here are some pcs pictures from the painting and further assembly stages.
The Shagbat is a relatively difficult airplane to build. Every parts have it's own direction - the dihedral is different on the [...]
