Revell Fw-200C-8 Werknummer 0224, F8+OL, 3/KG 40, 31 March 1944 This is the other four-engined aircraft for the Battle of the Atlantic display, Patuxent River Museum. This kit was started by a fellow modeller, Dan Yakel, who did the major construction, leaving the painting, decalling and fiddly bits to me. The Subject The Condor started […]
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P-26A 18th Pursuit Group This one had stalled since July 2012 due to…decals. I had them, had started putting them on, but it is usually during the decal stage that a great model start to turn into an average model (for me anyway). Something always goes wrong. So before this one went South I stopped,
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Fictional Racer This is not my scale, being 1/48th, but it was free and the club wanted to do a “build the same kit” theme so I acquiesced. The Backstory What if NASCAR never took off, so to speak, but aviation racing reached the sponsorship and popularity of modern day NASCAR? Lots of aircraft available
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Spitfire Mk XVIII, TZ233/T, 208 Squadron RAF, Palestine 1947 This was a long term project, mainly because this MPM kit is a limited run kit, meaning I had to supply some details, scratch others, and generally fix all the errors. The Subject The Mk XIV was meant as an interim solution until the “Super Spitfire”
Spitfire Mk IV, DP845, 1941 While researching my Spitfire III project I ran into DP845, the first (of two) Spitfire IV prototypes. There was enough unique about it that I decided I had to make it, and put it alongside my Spitfire III. I’ve since decided that if one is to have every mark of
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This was an easy kit, about 20 parts total, and only the one “color”. The Subject The Spirit of St Louis — what more can be said? Charles Lindbergh flew her from New York to Paris on May 20-21st 1927 non-stop to be the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an aircraft non-stop. The
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