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1/48 Hasegawa Ki-84 "Hayate"

by dale travis on June 8, 2024 · in Aviation

This kit in my opinion is one of Hasgawa's best. I used an SBS cockpit set and it has better detailing than the kit cockpit but by no means is it necessary. I did this because I already had the SBS one. The kit supplied cockpit parts are [...]

Group discussions today:

Today		157 ≡ · Representing the Naval Side - FJ-4B Fury
1h		121 ≡ · Pocher 1/4 Ducati Panigale 1299 R Final Edition
4h		218 ≡ · Academy 1/48 F86 Sabre, HAF 341 squadron
7h		86 ≡ · Bristol Beaufort Mk. I, 489 NZ Squadron RAF.
9h		15 ≡ · US Navy Spitfire Mk.Vb at D-Day: 1/32 Hobby Boss Spitfire Mk. Vb
		48 ≡ · Group F-86 #4: Italeri 1/48 F-86E
		93 ≡ · RAAF F-4E Phantom II
18h		46 ≡ · Ford GT 40 Mk2, 1966.
		8 ≡ · Hobbycraft 1/72 F2H-3 Banshee
19h		25 ≡ · Hobby Boss 1/72 MiG-15
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1/144 TWA C-54.

by John Healy on June 7, 2024 · in Aviation · 12 ≡

This started life as a Berlin Airlift boxing of the Minicraft kit. I picked it up at a swap meet for $3. A deal too good to refuse! This is also how stashes grow exponentially, lol. Anyways, I was going to build it using the kit [...]

Video: B-1B Lancer | Academy 1/144 Full Build

by iModeler Youtube Picks on June 7, 2024 · in Aviation

1/48 HKM B-17G Flying Fortress “Queenie”

by Tolga ULGUR on June 7, 2024 · in Aviation · 9 ≡

This is 1/48 HKM’s B-17G-15 (42-31353) LG-Q named “Queenie” from 91st BG, 322nd BS in Bassingbourn –England April 1944. I have used Eduard instrument panel and seat belts in the cockpit. I shortened the length of the landing legs [...]

Invasion stripes: Clostermann's Spitfire

by Rafi Ben-Shahar on June 7, 2024 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

When Hasegawa's 1/48th scale Spitfire Mk. IXc appeared, it was a big disappointment due to the short fuselage that seemed to doom the kit. Yet overall, the kit had a finely engraved panel lines and was easy to build. Hasegawa's flaw was [...]

Flt 19 Invasion Stripes GB-Hawker Tempest Mk.V Series 2,Eduard's 1/48th

by Chuck A. Villanueva on June 7, 2024 · in Aviation · 11 ≡

As the Allies continue their push into retaking Europe pushing the Axis back to the German border. No.80 Squadron, transitioned to the new Hawker Tempest Mk.V's and until the end of September were tasked on anti V1 duty while maintaining [...]

Scourge of the Atlantic.

by Paul van Acker on June 7, 2024 · in Aviation · 4 ≡

Trumpeter 1/48 Focke Wulf Fw200C-4 Condor of 8/KG40 Atlantic anti shipping duties equipped with FuG 200 Hoentwiel radar. I always said I'd need a bigger house before building this old kit. Luckily, I have the bigger house now. I'd not want [...]

Scratchbuilt 1/8th scale Spyder/Exercising Sulky

by Graham GREEN on June 7, 2024 · in Uncategorized · 6 ≡

Here is a 1/8th scale “Exercising Cart", or, you can use its popular name that it goes by today, a ’Spider’, for very obvious reasons. The full sized vehicle was owned by Mrs Val Perkins, from a small town called Coonewarre, [...]

The Toss Up: First Soviet Jets, MiG-9 and Yak-15

by Brian Powell on June 6, 2024 · in Aviation · 6 ≡

On April 24, 1946, both the MiG-9 and Yak-15 were ready to become the USSR's first jet aircraft. The MiG-9 flew first, allegedly on account of a lucky coin toss. Both jets made use of salvaged German engines; while the MiG-9 was a new [...]

Travelling globally at Mach 3.5: the future looked so limitless! Boeing 7207, America's Supersonic Transport of the 70s!

by Roland Sachsenhofer on June 6, 2024 · in Aviation · 7 ≡

Europe's Concorde, the Soviet Union's Tupolev Tu-144 - and the USA's Boeing 2707: this is what the world of supersonic passenger aviation would have looked like from the 1970s onwards according to US plans. It was obvious that the American [...]