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How to make a metal plate out of cardboard

by Charles King on August 11, 2021 · in How-to · 14 ≡

I've been asked, many times over, how I achieved the steel plate loads, I did for a build, many years ago. It's not the most updated fancy method, that everyone seems to be doing today, but it works and give pretty much the same results. [...]

P-51D Tamiya 1/32 Scale All metal skin! "Tattie Bus"

by Rick Schad on July 18, 2020 · in Aviation · 20 ≡

Well here she is! This will be my last metal skin build for a while! Such a pain to do this technique lol. This is the 1/32 scale Tamiya kit, nice kit, few fit issues but nothing really bad. The metal is the difficult part, hand cutting [...]

Tamiya 1/32 Scale P-51D with aluminum skin Part 1

by Rick Schad on June 26, 2020 · in Aviation · 25 ≡

Hello fellow modelers! Well i'm at it again with the aluminum skin builds. As you can see I am well under way on this P-51D from Tamiya. Great kit so far, few little fit issues but nothing crazy. Scratch built the seat cushion some wiring [...]

1/32 Scale Italeri F-104 ASA-M Italian Air Force with real aluminum skin

by Rick Schad on June 14, 2020 · in Aviation · 30 ≡

Hi friends, here is the completed F-104 ASA with real aluminum skin. I am so glad to be done with F-104s for awhile! This kit is my second 1/32 Italeri Starfighter and they are a good kit, but I added a lot of scratchbuilt details, [...]

UPDATE - 1/32 Scale Italeri F-104G ASA-M Italian Air Force with real aluminum skin

by Rick Schad on May 7, 2020 · in Aviation · 8 ≡

Well here I am again in aluminum hell! I promised I wouldn't do another metal skin airplane for awhile but I got hired to do another one and I can't say no lol. 90% of the details are completed so it is on to all the metal work. I can tell [...]

Mustang Airfix 1/72

by Jérôme Chapelle on December 7, 2019 · in Aviation · 9 ≡

The Mustang is one of the most beautiful warbirds, especially in natural metal finish. The Airfix kit is rather good in shape, good fit, sufficient details for the scale, and cheap. I build it from the box, and added a PJ Productions resin [...]