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Just stopping by to say hi and look to see if I left my plastic modelling mojo here, I can't seem to find it anywhere. Haven't fondled any plastic kits now for over 3 years. The closest I've come to any aircraft modelling is this 3/4" to the foot B-24 wind vane I'm working on. It's just an...

I wasn't sure where to put these but since they are civilian and not military this seemed like the spot. All the structures show are built to 1/24 scale which makes some of them quite large. I also like to build structures that actually existed but do some freelance as well. First up is this...

Just stopping by to say hi, it has been an all train hobby summer and aircraft modeling has been on the back burner although I do have two kits in the queue for the paint shop. When the weather brings an end to my outdoor fun I'll post some of the scratch building things I have been working on...

A close up of the wing surface detail, the rivet detail is so fine that it will likely disappear under a heavy coat of paint. Structure inside the fuselage, mostly clear of ejection pin marks but no locators for the detail to be added later. Back side of gear doors have no ejector pin marks...

Two completions in one week :oops: that's not likely to happen again ! The history on this one dates back a bit further than the 410. This one was started back in 2008 as an entry in the Defense of the Reich group build on Swanny's. Last time I checked the build log is still there but if you...

Hmmm, B2R2 sounds like a droid :) As I mentioned in my last post in the Mosquito build that in while I'm suffering through interior work on it, I'm also going to finish a few kits on the SOD. This one dates back to the Revell/Monogram campaign from 2018. With the exception of the canopy this is...

Well, since I seem to be on a roll and have a bunch of night fighters in the stash I'm going to do another one. I haven't built a Mosquito since the Monogram kit back in the early 70's and the Tamiya kit seemed to be calling my name. I've had the kit in the stash for a dozen years so I've...

I started this build back in January, I was getting burned out on two kits that just seemed to have one issue after another and needed to build something that didn't require me to use every skill in my tool box so I turned to one of my favorite Tamiya kits the Do-335, this time choosing the...

OK, I'll bite, maybe this will get my model building juices flowing again. I needed something that would go together without a lot of hassles so I choose a shake and bake kit and we'll see how it goes. I only have a mask set and a rather old PE set which I probably won't use much of as the...

My apologies to Frank for the title but sometimes my weird sense of humor kicks in and I can't help myself. The following are kits on hold, which is different than the SOD, the SOD kits will probably never be completed I just haven't decided to bin them yet. Kits on hold I fully intend to finish...

I did an in box kit review and the start of a build for this a little over a year ago. I got burned out masking all the tiny windows (no mask set available) and it ended up on the shelf. I recently pull it out and finished it up. Only issue I had was that some of the original masking I had done...

Obligatory start up photos This will be the third one in this series that I've done and unlike the past two this one has no cockpit other than a floor which I think just serves as a bulkhead so no micro parts to deal with. The props look like they might be a challenge to clean up and the...

HobbyBoss IL-2M, Kit Number 83203, kit includes Quickboost exhausts, Eduard 33094 Zoom interior, Eduard 32290 exterior, Eduard JX131 mask set, plus left over armament and other parts from an IL-3M kit. Asking $80 plus shipping Hasegawa A6M5c Zero type 52 Hei, Jinrai Squadron, kit number...

I recently was sorting through a small parts cabinet that I used mostly for items relating to my days in HO model trains and ran across the following... I haven't used any tube glues since the early 70's. The Revell Cement is still sealed and the contents is still pliable, the Ambroid I never...

OK, I have decided on this one for my "EPIC" build. Note: For epic I'm going with Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary definition for the word as an adjective, second definition: extending beyond the usual or ordinary especially in size or scope. This kit is beyond my usual in both size and...

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I found this kit when I cleared out the stash closet earlier this year, I was going to put it the "get rid of" pile but noticed it only had 36 parts so decided to build it. The last submarine I built was the nuke Nautilus back in the 5th or 6th grade with nothing but a single edge razor...

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