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So after a 30 year rest this one is ready for the display case. I did indeed start it 30 years ago, but as I was taking it over to a friend's house to show it to him I dropped it and chpped the top rear corner off of the fin and got depressed. I guess sometimes it just takes awhile to get the...

Next up is a 1/32 Spitfire. Kotare is going to release one in the second quarter of next year and it is on order but this one will do for now. It will be in the markings of the second picture. The landing light doors and openings next to the wheel well were filled using Aves...

Did this for a Weekend GB on FSM, there are still three of us who can still post there and two of us plus another I will be posting by proxy for are in this. I was supposed to be done in 48 hours elapsed time but by the time the photos were done it took 80 hours elapsed time. Guess I should...

Everybody needs a blimp, right? This is an old chestnut first released by ITC in 1957. The fit really wasn't that bad but needing a silver finish added to the work. I built it in between other builds during the latter part of the year and did the final touches this week. The base is just a...

This is another one for the Rowland Freedom Center, and also to be an in flight display. Hasegawa issued the RF-86F as a -40 with the longer wing, probably because that was the version Japan operated. Since I am making an earlier Project Haymaker RF-86F-30 I took the resin conversion parts...

I'm doing this one and an RF-86F for the museum where Solano Scale Modelers meets once per month. Here's that club's website: https://goldeneramodel.com/SCSM1/SCSM1.html I recently started managing the web site and we be adding more current affairs type club content to it as time goes on. I...

We've been doing this event since the late 90's or longer, here is a link to photos from yesterday, and a few photos. The photos below are all custom built giant scale models with wing spans over 80 inches, a few of the ones in the link are smaller...

I'm going to do this one as Bud Mahurin's airplane, the second option in the kit. I read his bio not long ago. A very nice kit. I used the decal for the instrument panel and it could have settled down better but looks OK since you cant see it very well. All else is going swimmingly. The...

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I started another X-Plane, one that I have had in the workshop pile for 10 years or so. It is the 1/48 Czech Models XP-56. It has resin detail parts and the rest is fairly good limited run injection moldings. Fit is very good so far but bring a rough file for the pour stubs. The cockpit tub...

Here's the D-7 from the same source as the grader. I had to do some repair work on the hard nose and hood where the build was incomplete, thick CA and dental alginate were used for that.

Well, there are no tracks or guns, but it'll never fly and certainly won't float so here we are. This is a 3D printed kit from Poland from a firm called IDAP Technologies, in their line called Military Scales. I bought this one and a D-7 dozer from them via ETSY. They make them in numerous...

This time it is a Hasegawa A6M2-K trainer and a Tamiya A6M3 model 22. I'll have the build details on my website before long but I am having trouble getting things posted to forums in a timely manner. It's like, do I build, or do I post? Or do I go to grandkid baseball games and take photos...

This one is nearly done as I build my way through all of Jiro Horikoshi's designs. Everything fits well in the end but there were some doubts along the way. You have to hold your mouth right and squeeze the plastic in the right place at several points during construction. The decals were a...

Here we go, the instrument panel is a plastic/film/pe sandwich, ready to install, with a few other internal bits started. The control pedestal with a pe bowtie for the yoke is also stuck together. I like to put the horizontal stabilizers on before joining the fuselage sides, it's easier for me...

I finished this one yesterday. I've read a lot of harsh words about the kit but my experience was not so bad. I did reprofile the top of the fuselage from the turret forward as it should have a increasing radius of curvature from square at the turret to rounded at the gunner's canopy. All the...

I got interested in doing one of these because of one built on another forum. The idea in my head is that perhaps the age of the molds was causing poor fit in newer releases of the kit. I have a couple of the original issue white box kits so I thought I would try building one and see if the...

It was a welcome surprise to see this one appear and I did not wait to get one as resin kits usually have short production runs. MPM made a 1/72 kit in 1995 that used the same box art. It is a well cast resin kit with white metal gear. The V-1 resin parts superimposed over and next to...

Visited this club which I think I will join, thought I would share a photo of where the meetings are held. Pretty ideal, I'd say!