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1/48 Trumpeter F-100C TuAF – Expanded Version
This is 1/48 Trumpeter F-100C finished with Turkish Air Force markings
Built process existing in work on progress section .
Trumpeter kit needs correction on the nose.So I used AMS resin set to correct the shape of the nose.
Cockpit [...]
Albatross around my neck :)
Well it was a long journey this my first Trumpeter kit, mods include Alley Cat canopy, bubble windows on the side, Navy tail and wing antenna, engine mods to get them close to being correct, float angle, clear beads for wing tip lights and [...]
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 [...]
