Our club decided to do a “Big Bomber Build” of the 1/48th scale Monogram Bombers, and since a local museum wanted something for their displays I agreed to make this one. The Subject Six Luftwaffe aircraft predominate the Battle of Britain, which for the Luftwaffe also included the night blitz (as Britains call it) that […]
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Spitfire HF VII, MD114/DUoG, No 312 (Czechoslovak) Squadron, RAF, Skeabrae, 1943. I hadn’t yet built a Hasegawa Spitfire, and since I didn’t yet have a Mk VII on my shelf decided I’d do this one. The Subject I’ve come to understand that frontline squadrons would rotate on occasion to airfields in the North and East,
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A6M2 Zero, Lt Sumio Nono, Hiryu air wing, 7th December 1941 I finally built this newly tooled A6M from Airfix and used many of Nick Millman’s recommendations for colors just to see how it would look. The Subject Lt Nono led the second wave of 9 A6M2 Zero fighter escorts from Hiryu, escorting 18 B5N2
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This is one of those products that has changed my modeling; therefore I’d like to share why. Uschi rigging thread is a flexible thread that is also round. So when it is applied to a model, it does not have the “flat” or square effect that some flexibly threads may show, especially noticeable if the
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