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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!

I started on this one, with the intent of having it done before January 1. It's the motorized version and came with a plastic base which is supposed to hide the battery and switch but after starting I thought it would be more fun to run the wires to a German style battery cart, which I thought...

I had thought my production was rather slow this year, but putting it all it one place it doesn't look so bad. All that ground equipment and the associated figures did use up some time. The group photo is all stuff I did myself, the Sea Fury my grandson Alex and I built together. I did the...

Another Hasegawa 1/48 kit on the bench. Using Eduard PE and a Superscale decal sheet to do Jaywalking Molecule. Not sure how a P-47 relates to being a molecule, but I'm sure there must be a reason.

Started this one yesterday, it will be the third 1/48 Hasegawa Zero I have done so far. All going well. Here is the current progress.

I seem to be stuck in 1/72 lately. This is a well cast kit by Whirleybirds, who unfortunately have recently closed shop due to the owner's retirement. It went together well, though there were some challenges because of my clumsiness and the fragility of some of the parts. The decals were very...

Just finished this one today. It was a difficult build in the sense that it is a small model and many of the parts were fragile, perhaps due to age because this kit has been in my stash for a long time. The slat arms and nose gear were in particular very troublesome. I gave up on the tail...

My club which I recently became active in had our 27th Show and Contest last Saturday. Here's a link to photos posted on the club's Facebook page. The link to the main Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/groups/IPMSSACRAMENTO/ I participated in judging and while it probably make me a...

This is a combination of one Hasegawa Set A of Ground Support Equipment and the ESCI Aircraft Support Group, both 1/48. I built these as fill in while other models had wait times, and because someday I hope to grow up and do something like a diorama. Or maybe a modest scene. Apart from the...

I've had this kit for quite some time and decided to build it while filler was drying on my Hasegawa B-47. I had some reservations about the kit's quality but much to my surprise it turned out to be well molded and very detailed. I would not be surprised if there were 90 parts used, with some...

I guess I forgot to start a thread on this one, so here is a recap to where it is now. The only non-kit thing is instrument panel decals developed from photos from a T-34 flight manual that's been in my library since forever. I have thousands of hours in Beech products but I can only recall...

Here's a couple I built this month, going back to the old days of fun quick builds, only with modern materials and methods but no aftermarket allowd, The fit of both of these kits was very good. The only filler on the Mustang was to fair in the chin scoop on the radiator a little, The T-28...

I've been slowly working on this one since December, it's definitely not a candidate for MMM. The B-47 has always been one of those airplanes that has always been one of my favorites, both elegant in appearance and one of the major milestones in the history of aircraft design. Over 1500 were...