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THE FRYING PAN CHALLENGE! Part 5. Model finished. Challenge met.
Is that correct English by the way? Do you "meet" a challenge?
Anyway, here she is.
Since the last post, I've worked with thin mists of various colors over the paintwork and with artists colored pencils on the decals, to bleach [...]
THE FRYING PAN CHALLENGE! Part 4. The fun has begun.
Playing around with the airbrush over large surfaces is the best part of aircraft modeling in my opinion.
Before I painted the black underside, I laid a foundation of reddish brown.
That was followed by a thin layer of dark grey and then [...]
THE FRYING PAN CHALLENGE! Part 3. Fuselage and wings.
A german high quality virus halted the build for almost a week and ruined three days of skiing vacation, but today I got going again.
The clear parts didn't really fit as one would wish, so some putty and sanding was required.
With [...]
1/48th Trumpeter Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23ML Iraqi Air Force January 1991, The Great Escape
It's 5:00 Am in late January, Capt Ahmad Al-Saladi is still contemplating what he and his brothers are about to partake. 2 days prior the Iraqi Air force had launched a rather ambitious attack against coalition ground forces that had [...]
THE FRYING PAN CHALLENGE. Part 2. Cockpit and engines.
With the FRYING PAN hanging above my tender neck, like the sword of Damocles, I've been working away on the Wellington.
The interior of the aircraft has been build and finished. Trumpeter has added quite a bit of interior to the kit. Much [...]
Su-24MR Trumpeter 1/72
Su-24MR Trumpeter (no.01672) of Russian Naval Aviation. Model completed this year, built only based on factory kit + Edurd parts + stand for model Coastal kits + Alexminiatures figurines. Painting GUNZE Mr.Color and Hobby Color. Set very [...]
1/32 Trumpeter P-40B in Pappy Boyington AVG Scheme
Model Details:
Cutting Edge Resin Cockpit: This fixes the shallow cockpit which is a defective, design flaw within base kit.
Eduard Resin Wheels and Tires: Kit tires have little to know detail
Brass Gun Tubes
Wire brake lines added
Extra [...]
F9F-2P Panther
Trumpeter 1/48 scale F9F-2 built straight out of the box just adding etched seat belts.
Aeromaster sea blue was used to paint the model using the decals supplied.
The base is resin PSP planking painted with humbrol metalcote with markings [...]
HAIG K8 Karakorum, 03-02804, Sherdils, Pakistan Air Force Risalpur 2010.
1/72 Trumpeter, almost OOB, I added a smoke tank, finished in MM, Concept and Revell enamels with Future over kit decals, built in 2015.
Tommy McGuire's last "Pudgy"
The Trumpeter P-38L done OOB with seatbelts, and Eagle Cals decals. (Last of thre P-38s for now, though there are two 1/48 kits in the stash)
On Jan. 7, 1945, Tommy McGuire led a flight of four planes on an early morning fighter sweep over [...]
