Trumpeter model kits
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Trumpeter F6F-5N Hellcat Night Fighter 1/32
Hellcat, everybody loves it, everybody has one so... I got me one. I saw many examples of this extraordinary fighter plane and many with the fuselage open to see the interior and I was encouraged to do it this way.
I decided to work on the [...]
It's here!! Trumpeter 1/32 TBD-1
The beeg box from Squadron landed on the front porch here at Le Chateau du Chat an hour ago.
Preliminary observation: I was right that it is based on the Great Wall Hobby kit. That's good news. Other than everything is big, nothing looks [...]
Trumpeter Vought F4U-1D Corsair 1/32
Hello everyone. I'm back after a while for this new model. Again it is a Corsair but with markings and paint used by the British in the Pacific theater.
The original kit is from Trumpeter which comes with good details and gave almost no [...]
Trumpeter 1/48 Vigilante RA-5C
Trumpeter's Vigilante was never on my list due to reports on shape and fit issues related to the kit. Nonetheless, I received this model from a friend and promptly built it.
In spite of the bad reputation, it builds to an impressive [...]
Review: At last, a large scale TBD – Trumpeter 1/32 Douglas TBD-1 Devastator
"Mythical", according to Merriam-Webster, is defined as :existing only in the imagination: fictitious, imaginary. Well, for how many years now has a Trumpeter 1/32 scale TBD Devastator been dangled in front of the modeling [...]
AV8BII Harrier 1/32 scale build x 6 update.
Hi All,
A quick update on the 6 Harriers that I am building for the USMC Blacksheep Squadron for the 80th Anniversary.
I am now onto the engines, I completed one as a test so the other 5 would go smoothly and this approach seems to work [...]
I have seen the Trumpeter 1/32 TBD-1 Devastator - Good News
Was up at the LHS this afternoon and they had one of the new Trumpeter 1/32 TBD-1 Devastator kits.
Yes! Thirty years of "coming soon" has arrived! It's no longer vaporware. It's real.
So how is it?
It's like this: 20 years ago [...]
The first phase of the 1/32 scale Harrier builds for the USMC Blacksheeps
Hi all!
Well I have completed 5 of the 6 Harrier AV8B II Plus cockpits for phase one, kit 6 just arrived so I have to go backwards and do this phase all over again so they are all on the same step.
Build has been tedious, having to do [...]
Cenepa War...1/48 Cessna A-37B Dragonfly, Fuerza Aérea Ecuatoriana
After the Peruvian Tucano, here´s an Ecuadorian counterpart for the Cenepa War between the two countries in 1995.
My dad used the nice Trumpeter kit with Aztec decals. Painted with a lightened Gunze H331 BSC Dark Sea Grey, Gunze H303 [...]
Trumpeter 1/35 DRB Class 52 locomotive
Trumpeter did a good job in depicting the iconic WWII German locomotive at the 1/35th scale. Or maybe I am not familiar enough with the locomotive to criticize design issues...
