Monogram model kits
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Monogram's Liberator was built as a restoration challenge of a bargain kit that missed most of the transparent parts and others. In particular interest was forming the nose glass section. I borrowed from a friend the transparent tree [...]
Atlantis re-pop of the classic Monogram kit. My wife got it for me for Christmas, what a fun build and trip down memory lane. I used aftermarket decals and hand painted the tail stripes rather than using the stickers
The H variant was the most produced Heinkel He-111 aircraft and a diversified service carrier.
The night and torpedo variants are themes in Monogram's He-111 series. As a later Monogram model, it has recessed panel lines and is well [...]
Three camouflage schemes characterize much of the Dakota (also in Hebrew) appearance in its long service since the War of Independence. The blue and brown scheme was introduced in the mid 50s. It was replaced by the multicolored version by [...]
Started in 23 but finally finished is my first completion in 2024. It is the old A/M P-51C kit which is a P-51B with the tail fillet joint. For some reason I seem to be concentrating on checker tail birds especially those from the 325th [...]
I might get one last one in, but likely not. I got Snoopy's Sopwith Camel, the Monogram re-pop from Atlantis for Christmas, but despite its' simplicity I doubt I get it done by Jan 1. So here are. my 2023 builds! Bandai 1/72 X-wing (if [...]
My second contribution is actually my first subject to start with for the GB. The Monogram/Pro Modeler Douglas B-26B gun nose variant. I was also building the ICM glass nose variant along side this project. The known issue of the [...]
Frank Miller and Fred Offenhauser
In the early 1900s Framk Miller built some of the fastest, most beautiful and innovative open wheel race cars of all time.
In 1913, Miller hired a 25 year old machinist named Fred Offenhauser who learned [...]
This is built with some modifications. The kit is kinda of a dog...Raised panel lines and does NOT fit well at all. I guess it was in the toy realm of its era.
I added some gun barrels from plastic tube stoch and modified the main guns. [...]
Due to the restrictions placed on Germany after WWI, which prohibited, among others, the maintaining of an air force, Siegfried and Walter Günter at Heinkel Flugzeugwerke designed the He 111 in 1934, essentially a bomber presented solely [...]