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Zvezda 1/48 LaGG-3
Just a few days before Christmas , 2024, a package arrived in the mail from my friend, Liliya. She had sent gifts for everyone in my family. My wife was given a cool set of nesting dolls, mine was this new release Zvezda kit that Liliya [...]
Zvezda KV-1 1/72
The past weeks I have read a lot about Stalingrad, for instance in Jonathan Littels novel ‘The Kindly Ones’ and these days in Vasili Grossman’s ‘Stalingrad’. That inspired me to build this KV-1 in 1/72. My first experience with [...]
SU-85. Green, boring and soviet, still kinda cool.
Salute!
Here's a thing i've build few years ago, but since the war on Ukraine begun I couldn't even look at this... So I decided to sell it, therefore I had to do some pics. Politics aside, here it is. Su-85 tank destroyer, zvezda kit with [...]
Two become one, one becomes two: a strange modelling story about an even stranger flying vehicle,: A-90 "Orlyonok" Ekranoplan, part II
Sometimes things don't go as planned: I finally managed to get hold of a second kit of this impressive ground effect vehicle to start a double project on the subject - and then I realised that essential components were missing from one of [...]
Two become one, one becomes two: a strange modelling story about an even stranger flying vehicle,: A-90 "Orlyonok" Ekranoplan, part I
The mysterious aircraft presented here is surprisingly difficult to categorise. Although it flies at a speed of several hundred kilometres per hour and is reminiscent of a classic aeroplane in many parts, it also moves with a spray or dust [...]
Jak-3,1.French regiment " Normandie Niemen" 303 FAD USSR, Pilot komandir Marcel Albert Spring 1945.
Jak-3
1.French regiment " Normandie Niemen"
303 FAD USSR, Pilot komandir
Marcel Albert
Spring 1945.
After some fiddling and a lot of putty I finished it.
I used an exhaust from Quicboost, Aires
propeller and spinner and height [...]
Zvezda 1/48 MI-24V/VP – Czech Tigermeet version.
A lovely kit that went together very nicely and gave me no real issues other than the self inflicted ones.
Primed with Tamiya Neutral Grey.
Painted with.
Hataka Orange Line Gunship Grey, Grey, Light Ghost Grey, International Orange, Golden [...]
1/48 Zvezda Petlyakov Pe-2
Here is the 1/48 Pe-2 from Zvezda. A very enjoyable kit to build with a fully detailed interior and two full engines. I used decals from Begemot to depict the Pe-2 of General Polbin during February 1945 when Soviet forces were battling [...]
Bf109F-4 In Spanish Service
This build started several years ago with an excellent SBS resin cockpit that I happened to have. Actually, I built the whole model for it, and (as usual) it's not visible on the final photos. But anyway - I have some good WIP photos of [...]
