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Gee Bee Model “Z” Super Sportster – 1:32, Williams Bros with lots of scratch
Hi All!
This is my finally finished Gee Bee "Z" from the venerable Williams Bros kit (not bad just a bit old) with lot of modifications and - hopefully - upgrade. I started this kit years ago but I had some issues with - as I [...]
Junkers Ju390 V2 Conversion in 1/72 Scale
Here are completed pictures of my Ju 390 in 1/72 scale. The model was constructed using components from two Revell of Germany Ju 290 kits. It represents the Ju 390 V2 developmental aircraft serving with Fernaufklärungsgruppe 5 at Mont [...]
Mirage F1 AZ 1/32 Scale, Scratch Build. Part 2
Glued in the Balsa wood between the fuselage ribs, and started sanding the to get the shape, to make the molds for vac forming.
This project is much bigger than anticipated and the amount of detail that I want to add is going to be mind [...]
Mirage F1 AZ 1/32 Scale, Scratch Build. Part 1
Well its that time again.''The scores are tie, and now its time for the big one'', Yip, I have taken the plunge again and started another long term project in the form of the Mirage F1 AZ of the South African Airforce. Needless to say she [...]
Very early RB-57E Patrica Lynn Canberra
Hello all,
This is my attempt at producing an accurate 1/72 scale rendition on the RB-57E. For many years the Italeri B-57 was regarded as the best option but unfortunately the kit is deeply flawed, the issues are too many to go into here, [...]
Scratch built US M101 field howitzer
This is a scratch built model of a US M101 field howitzer.I made a smaller one a few years ago. I really like the look of this gun so I Desided to make a slightly larger one with more detail.The gun was copied from pictures so not sure of [...]
Fokker Spin Type III – Scratchbuilt 1/45
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This is my first fully scratch built model and my first airplane. The Spin (spider in dutch) caught my attention while browsing the web and I fell in love. Normally I build ships, but this I just HAD to build. Needless to [...]
German Flak 18 88mm aa gun.
This is another scratch built AA gun I built a few years ago. I changed and added a few new parts to it to get it looking right,also changed the colour. 1/24 scale,copied from a 1/72 kit 3 times bigger.
Twin 40mm Bofors
This is a land based twin 40mm Bofors I scratched made a couple of years ago.Iv Made a few changes to it.Copied from pictures,not sure of the scale.Full elevations is 7.5 inches high.Made from wood.
New CSM, LM and S-IVB parts for 1/200 Apollo 11 LUT project
For the past few weeks I've usually gotten one more swing arm for the LUT up each weekend, with corresponding work to the pad base. But for the past several days the pad and the mobile launcher have taken a back seat to improvements to [...]
