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Finally Something Finished!

by Scott Nelson on February 8, 2019 · in Aviation · 6 ≡

My first completed kit for the year, I present a Special Hobby 1/72 CAC C-3/5 Wirraway. On the whole this was an enjoyable build. It was a pretty easy kit especially for a short run model. The only issue for me was that the exhausts [...]

F-86D 1/48 Revell

by Jirka Kuchynka on February 4, 2019 · in Aviation · 15 ≡

A year ago I said I was not going to deal with resin and photographed parts for the models or the rivet counting. I'm just glueing myself. Just to explain why this is so. I take this activity as a relaxation. The Revell model is very cool [...]

1/48 Revell F-86D

by Chris Plum on February 2, 2019 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

I finished this one a couple of months ago, I'm still looking for a good BMF paint. This one was painted with Alclad. This is a really nice kit to build and I used the kit decals which went on with no issues and using decal solvent. I have [...]

Hobby Boss Fury

by Chris Plum on February 2, 2019 · in Aviation · 15 ≡

Just finishing up on this project, it went well but I had some snags, I'm not sure if it was on my part or HB. This is the first kit I tried my new Iwata C Plus on, and it's a great airbrush.

Hasegawa 1/48 F-86F-30 Sabre “The Huff”

by bob mack on January 28, 2019 · in Aviation · 37 ≡

Lt. Jim Thompson piloted this aircraft out of Suwon AFB South Korea. In May 1953 he scored his first kill, a Russian MiG-15 flown by a red Chinese pilot. The MiG had a marvelous dragon painted on the nose which enamoured Jim so much he ran [...]

1/48 SAAF F86 Sabres in Korea

by PHILLIP EVANS on January 26, 2019 · in Aviation · 10 ≡

Here are my two models of the F86 Sabres as used ny No2 'Flying Cheetahs' Sqn, SAAF in Korea. 1/48 ESCI kit - done as aircraft No 611 'Danny Boy' with slatted wings and 1/48 Academy kit - done as aircraft No 622 'Lady of Lorette' with wing [...]

X-15 for Christmas (with many recycled components)

by Gábor Szabó on December 13, 2018 · in Aviation · 23 ≡

Hi All! At the end of the year I again built a christmas model; I fortunate enough that the people around me not just tolerate my passion but it seems they actually like my little stuffs - so I occasionly build models as gifts for them. [...]

Pilot’s Last Flight

by Greg Kittinger on October 12, 2018 · in Aviation · 21 ≡

For Christmas of 2003, I found a gentleman at a local airport who owned a T-28, one of the primary trainers my dad had flown earning his wings. I offered to pay him to take my dad up for a flight in his plane, but he agreed to do it and [...]

F-100 Super Sabre (The Hun)

by Greg Kittinger on October 8, 2018 · in Aviation · 16 ≡

I've about finished selling these old slides of my dads, so thought I'd start posting some of these pics in a series. Dad flew with a camera frequently and took some great air-to-air photos (as well as some stuff on the ground). I just [...]

John Glenn – almost a MiG ace

by Tom Cleaver on May 31, 2018 · in Aviation · 22 ≡

My entry in the Nose Art group project. John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, had several incidents occur in his life that could be seen as "indicators" of his later achievement. As a Marine pilot in the Central [...]