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PBM-5A Mariner in Royal Nedherlands Navy Forces, East New Guinea.

by capt. R on November 24, 2024 · in Aviation · 24 ≡

(link) I have recently become interested in flying boats. After the great success of the PBY-5A flying boat project, I decided to build a PBM-5A. Initially, I wanted to find a model in the PBM5 version, but the Minicraft model on eBay was [...]

A Christmas Present

by Phillip Friddell on October 31, 2021 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

Last year's Christmas went the usual way around here, with the standard "what would you like for Christmas" being asked by my wife. My normal response is pretty noncommittal, but this time around I had a plan! Tamiya's P-38F/G [...]

Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien / Tony, Otaki

by Bob Dudolevitch on January 11, 2021 · in Aviation · 9 ≡

My second post features and old Otaki Ki-61 (from the mid-70s). It's a very basic kit, but it goes together well, and seems accurate in scale and shape. I think there is a lot of life in the 1970s Japanese kits, even though the lack of [...]

Tamiya Beaufighter Mk. VI

by Tony Prince on April 16, 2017 · in Aviation · 29 ≡

This kit was built originally as a RAAF Mk.21 shortly after the kit was released. I later felt that the foliage green overall finish didn't do it justice & decided to re-do it as a Mk. VI from 30 Squadron RAAF. This gave me a lot more [...]

1/32 Hasegawa “Oscar” Ki-43 II Otsu 77th Sentai

by Louis Gardner on November 26, 2016 · in Aviation · 19 ≡

Tonight is an article about a model that I built about 10 years ago. It's Hasegawa kit number 08053. It was a really nice kit to build. Simple and easy to construct, with enough detail to keep you happy. The only thing I didn't like was [...]