Our club’s theme for July is “Salute the General”, any model of a General Motors subject. My initial plan was to model the FM-2 Wildcat using the MPM kit, but once the Museum project kicked in I had to find something less challenging. Since Iwasn’t doing 1 FM-2, I decided to do 2 FM-1’s. A […]
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No Battle of the Atlantic display would be complete without some sort of merchant ship to represent the thousands that not only served but were lost during the 6 years of the battle. Thousands of merchant sailors served the Allied cause and were exposed to many of the same dangers as soldiers, sailors and airmen
I found this link on Hyperscale last year when the whole Tamiya paint availability scare was at a frenzy (well, on line it seemed like a frenzy). I was getting low on thinner so wanted to see if somebody had figured out what the stuff was made of. I found four choices to work from:
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The Patuxent River Naval Air Museum Association requested the Southern Maryland Scale Modelers build a number of ship and aircraft models for display to help tell the story of Naval Aviation as part of the World War II Battle of the Atlantic. Background The Battle of the Atlantic raged for the entire period of the
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Airfix released 23 Spitfires in 4 scales over the last 57 years and their objective is to release one of each mark, in 72nd scale anyway. As the premier kitmaker foe Britain youd think their kits of their most iconic aircraft would be the best there is. Unfortunately, some have been pretty horrible as
Six months since my last posting! Too long, but I’ve been distracted by work. You know it, that thing that lets me pursue this hobby. And also some leisure activities that, to some degree, are related to modeling. I HAVE been modeling, though. Just not posting. In February my local club was approached by the
