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26 years ago I was a recent college grad...no debt, and things to do. A friend of mine bought a flight in Crazy Horse, at the time it was $1,600 for an hour. Three of us Mustang nuts piled in the car and headed to Latrobe, PA to watch Tony [...]
A few years ago, I received a 1/48 scale model of Pilatus PC-9 as a gift, which I have been wanting for quite some time. I myself delayed the purchase and hoped for a better model, and in addition, I was deterred by the price, which seemed [...]
An experiment with resin using the 1/350 Revell U-boat kit.
Hi everyone!
This is my 1/72 Airmodel Heinkel P.1078C Resin kit.
The Heinkel P.1078 (He P.1078) was a projected single seat interceptor developed for the Luftwaffe by Heinkel aircraft manufacturing company under the Emergency Fighter [...]
The A2D Sky Shark was originally designed to be a turboprop powered contra rotating propeller equipped reply to the short range and low thrust of early jets based on a requirement for an attack plane able to fly off escort carriers. [...]
This kit started as an Italeri C-130E/H and along the way I
Re-scribed the model,
Reposition cabin windows for a J model,
Added Hamilton Hobbies Sponson extensions, ECS inlet and duck tail (from the C-130H Update set) ,
Replace the [...]
This 1/10 female bust is a resin cast with superb details. I just love the pose and the slight devilish look in her eyes. The plan was to try out NMM (Non-Metallic Metals) but chickened out and went for Citadel metallic paints.
Thanks for [...]
I bought this resin bust on a trip to London back in 1998. It had no box or any information, only the resin bust in a plastic bag. I think it’s 1/5 scale but know nothing more about it.
Remember this was 7 years before Youtube.com came [...]
This is my first attempt at painting with oils. It’s oil over acrylics and that seems to work for me, as the oils lend itself better for blending and if you make a mistake you can pull the paint off again with thinner.
This model [...]
This is the Soviet SMK Heavy Tank prototype built from the Ostmodels 1/72 scale resin kit. It is an unconventional design which actually saw combat. The utility of carrying multiple turrets on the same chassis is somewhat limited, but it [...]