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Autumn Mist
So here he is, Verlinden's 120mm SS Trooper in the Ardennes. As I said in my build article I chose to do this guy different than was intended. He is in the M44 Camouflage uniform in Dot pattern on the box, including pants, and appears as [...]
Tamiya 1/48 P-47D Razerback 2Lt Lloyd Hathcock
My third in a series of aircraft flown by the Tuskegee airman. This one depicts a P-47D flown by 2Lt Hathcock with the 301st Fighter Squadron in Ramitelli, Italy. Build pretty much out of the box, but I did include a Ultracast seat and [...]
Submarine Aircraft Carrier.
This is the Tamiya 1/350th scale Japanese Navy Submarine I-400 with Tamiya Detail up etched parts set. Painted with Tamiya acrylics and white ensign enamels.
The I-400 was constructed as a submergible aircraft carrier able to launch 3 [...]
WingNut Wings Fokker E.II.
This is my latest completed WingNut Wings kit...
It's the Eindecker flown by Otto Kissenberth in January 1916.
The cowling is done in Alclad Aluminium with the swirls applied with a silver chromatic pencil and a soft 2b graphite [...]
Pilatus PC 6 1/32 Scale Scratch build
The end is getting closer... I have started to paint the aircraft, It will be a model of a PC 6 that does geophysical surveying, the company, called NRG has its HO here in Cape Town, and they were kind enough to send me some walk around [...]
Hasegawa 1/48 P-39Q 100th Fighter Squadron
I'm been wanting to do the various planes flown by the Tuskegee Airman and this is the second one I've completed. The first was a P-40L "Ace of Pearls" which I posted here several years ago. Like most Tuskegee aircraft this one [...]
Stalingrad Revisited
In Headlines three years ago, nearly to the week, I posted this Jeff Shiu Miniatures 120mm resin figure of a German Grenadier at Stalingrad; I was never happy with the painting. Since then, my figure painting skills have improved somewhat, [...]
Mark IV male "Hyacinth", Tamiya 1/35
I tried to build some technique. I chose an icon in the world of tanks.
Mark IV male.
Building purely out of the box, complemented by some little things I found at home. Gypsum casting washer + wood plank, barbed wire is made of etched set [...]
F84G Thunderjet
Tamiya 1/48th F84G Thunderjet.
Eagle strike decal set number 48143
The aircraft was a F84G of the 310th fighter bomber squadron,
58th fighter bomber wing,
Korea 1952.
I painted the model with various shades of Alclad 11 & Aeromaster [...]
Tamiya 1/48 scale DeHavilland Mosquito MK VI
Depiction: 605 squadron / 100 bomber support group.
Bradwell Bay Essex England 1943.
Pilot Leader: Heath
One of the aircraft that is probably on everybody's list of their top favorite aircraft of WWII, and what's not to like. The [...]
