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Trumpeter 1/16 SU-100, or “How to determine your workbench is level for only 200 dollars”
Originally, this was to be a large, substantial article about the large and substantial 1/16 scale SU-100 assault gun from Trumpeter. Fate intervened and decided instead to teach me the value of having a one-hundred-and-ten-percent level [...]
Grumman Hellcat 1 – No 800 Squadron, Fleet Air Arm (Royal Navy) – 1/32
Not having seen one in real life, I hadn't fully appreciated how big the F6F was until I built this kit and parked it alongside other WW2 fighters of the same scale.
This is from the Trumpeter 1/32 F6F-3 kit. OOB except for Eduard cockpit [...]
Trumpeter 1/72 Antonov An-2 Colt/Nanchang Y-5
The book "Aggressor aircraft" by Chuck Stewart has a chapter titled "The real thing". There's a picture with the caption: "In March 1988, the Defense Test and Support Evaluation Agency (DTESA), at the direction [...]
Albatross sneak peak
Ok last update until I finish up, Caracal decals, kit decals and spares decals to make the Brunswick SAR bird, whew so far so good!
TuAF F-100C
TuAF F-100C has landed. You can see the building process from Work in progress section.
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Video: Trumpeter's 1/48 Westland Whirlwind: Reveal
Kit graciously supplied by the KitMaker Network
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Well, turns out I do have one last P-40…
This is the Trumpeter P-40B, done as Erik Shilling's recon bird he flew on the first Allied offensive mission of the Pacific War, the recon flight to Bangkok on December 10, 1941.
I first met Erik in the summer of 1977, when airshow pilot [...]
Another P-40 – Trumpeter 1/48 Curtiss 81-A2 Warhawk
I finished this about 2 years ago, using the Kits World decals for "Tex" Hill's aircraft, & Gator Masks for the camouflage.
I rebuilt the cockpit to the proper depth using a combination of kit parts, True Details [...]
How to fix those pesky float pylons on the Trumpy Albatross, plus some engines
So amongst the myriad problems that mar tis wonderful kit is the fact that Trumpeter failed to notice the pylons the wing floats are attached to are the wrong angle. They are parallel to the wing when they should sweep forward. One site [...]
Trumpeter AVG Tomahawk 1/32
I couldn't help but notice a P-40 theme in the last few posts, so I am compelled to add my own rendition of this noble bird to this site! This is the Hobbycraft boxing of Trumpeter's P-40B/Hawk 81A2 Tomahawk done as it could only be [...]
