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Bob, It was funny seeing that picture in there that's for sure. Years ago there was a guy named F Shammas and he built a number of models of modern jet aircraft in Iranian markings and his airfield style pictures of his models were so convincing one of his images was used by ABC news in a...

Ron, Yep, that's the one! The Horten marked 'red 10' inside the hangar is my model. Paul, Its hard to say where they lifted the image of the model from, that model was built in 2008 or early 2009 and pictures of it were posted at several modeling sites. Anyway...the photographic site has a lot...

I stumbled onto a really good site filled with many good photographs from the WW II era, its ''World War II in Pictures, Photo's You Probably Haven't Seen Before''. This site lives up to the title, there are a lot of photographs that are new to me and I have barely looked at a fraction of what...

Thanks! Bob, I can only guess why the Japanese airplanes ran cleaner than their German counterparts and I believe the aviation petrol in Japan was better quality from either different crude oil or production methods at the refinery. The 109 and Ki-61 used almost the same engine type yet the...

Thanks! :thumbsup Christian, The yellow triangle on the right side of the fuselage is not a fuel filler marking, its for the MW tank. There were several variations of this marking to be seen on K-4's with the later versions having a pale brown triangle outlined in white. There were even a...

Bob, What I do is add some weathering on a model and force myself to step away from it for a while and return to it later with fresh eyes, having other models to work on helps tamp down the temptation from doing too much weathering on a model in one session. Since I started doing it this way my...

I have been busy with weathering the Dinah, some subtle paint chipping was added to the wing roots and a few other areas of the airframe. Oil paints were used to highlight many of the panel lines but I made sure the color of the oil paints were not very high contrasting so they would just...

Thanks guys! Like the other models this Bf 110G-4 had oil paints used to highlight random panel lines...mostly on the undersurface and control surfaces. Its slowly starting to look like a war weary machine. :) The wing roots had quite a bit of wear added but in these pictures it just looks...

Thanks! It may be hard to see but weathering has been added with oil paints. I hope once the flat clear coat is on more of the work done with the oil paints show up better. Matrixone

Thank you all for the comments! :salute The staff car was built from the old Hasegawa kit, it was supposed to be 1/72 scale but it looks undersize to me. :idonno While looking on the net for more information late war German aircraft designs I found a couple pictures that are of interest...

Thanks for the comments! :good The farthest the Germans went with this design was getting plenty of wind tunnel data to perfect the flying qualities and I believe a mockup of the cockpit was built but there is not much other information available. The Soviets were known to have interest in...

Thanks again Luiz! :thumbsup Matrixone

Thanks Luiz! Weathering on this one was not easy since to do and I had to guess how this machine might have looked after seeing some heavy usage in combat conditions. This aircraft was the F-35 of its day and I am sure all effort would be made to keep them in good condition. Matrixone

This model was built from the 1/72 scale Dragon Me P.1101 kit. The model was built O.O.B. and markings came mostly from my spare decal box. Some may wonder why this aircraft has green instead of gray squiggles for the camouflage pattern, as it turned out by the time the Me P.1101 was entering...

Thank you ausf! Matrixone

Thanks! I have seen several videos of RC scale models of the Ju EF 128 and they flew pretty well. After the Russians captured many of the engineers and data from Junkers they realized the Ju EF 128 was a design worth consideration for further development and I believe they did build one or...

Thanks for the comments, really appreciated! :thumbsup A few more images of this model... Matrixone

I thought I posted the pictures of the finished model of the Junkers Ju EF 128 but I guess not. :S This model was built SFTB from the 1/72 scale Huma kit, as the norm for Huma kits the decals were not worth using so I raided my decal spares box for the markings of this aircraft operated by JG...

Very nice work, that's an aircraft I have never seen before. And I understand the problem you had with the decals and the markings you chose really look the part. Matrixone

Thanks for the replies! James, After the intense decaling session trying to piece together all those broken tiny stencil markings I tried to stand up and was hit by severe pain in my lower back...this stopped about everything for a couple days including modeling. Who would have thought you...