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1/48 Tamiya Spitfire Mk.Ia,RN-N
1/48 Tamiya Spitfire Mk.Ia,RN-N (serial number over-painted)
Flight Officer Desmond Sheen 72 Squadron, Acklington, June 1940. Flight Officer Des Sheen was one of the early Spitfire aces. His Mk.I Spitfire is painted in the "B" [...]
RNZAF F4U-1A
Hello again:
This is from this time last year - my first 'Kiwi' build since washing-up here in 2012. It's the superb Tamiya 1:48 Corsair, but with a few extras: An Eduard 'Zoom' set for the cockpit, Ultracast resin prop & wheels and a [...]
Tamiya 1/48 Lancaster B.III (Special) “Grand Slam”
Little needs to be said about the Lancaster, one of the truly legendary “greats” of the Second World War. A product of brilliant improvisation when the twin-engine Manchester proved underpowered and unreliable, Avro took the airplane [...]
35th Scale Zundapp K500
I’ve been tinkering with another long forgotten stash refugee, Vulcan’s Zundapp K500. I made some new cylinder barrels for it and added individual tread blocks because the laminated assembly process wasn’t distinct enough for me. The [...]
1/32 Special Hobby Brewster Buffalo
This is my newly completed Buffalo from Special Hobby. This aircraft served with 25 Sqn RAAF during the early 1940's at Pearce Airforce base in Perth Western Australia and served in a defensive role due to the threat of invasion by the [...]
Protecting the diorama WIP
And so after bringing my venerable old badger airbrush back to life and with an air can I painted the AA gun in field grey. Also seen here are the first stages of weathering.
Hi folks I took these before I left for the States for radical [...]
Sauber Mercedes C9
Hi folks, this is my most recent build. It's an old Tamiya 1/24 kit of the 1989 Le Mans winning group C car. The car was a continuation of the partnership between Peter Sauber as a constructor and Mercedes as the engine builder. The number [...]
Tamiya 1/48 F-117
Presenting my F-117 that was finished a while back- finally getting around to posting pictures of it. Only aftermarket used was an Aires resin ejection seat.
While researching the boarding ladder I realized that essentially they are [...]
Let them Rust In Peace (RIP), the German modern pussy cats
As an in-between Project this Tamiya kit lasted longer than awaited on the bench. Additional parts are the wonderful AFV-Club tracks and the SKP lenses. Colors are self mixed Schmincke airbrush artist paints. The weathering was done with [...]
1/48 Tamiya Fw190 A-8/R2 Karl Spenst, 8./JG 300, December, 1944.
Reconstruction of Fw190A-8/R2, “Black 10”, flown by CO of 8./JG 300, Karl Spenst, in December, 1944. This aircraft was photographed on November 27th, 1944 at Lobnitz, while still carrying the brick red fuselage band. The identifier for [...]
