Fury Biplane
Inexpensive, accurate, and easy to build. And it’s a biplane!
RAF
Royal Air Force subjects, all eras, all scales.
Typhoon Ib
This was completed back in November 2017 but my writeup was stalled due to loss of publishing mojo.
Air-Sea Rescue Defiant
Boulton-Paul Defiant ASR Mk I, V1121/BA*O, 277 Squadron, RAF, August 1942 The Subject The Defiant was expected to intercept bombers and with it’s 4x .303 Brownings easily get close enough to…oh who am I kidding. It was a really dumb idea regardless what it was designed for. Strap a heavy turret onto a fighter and
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Metal Winged Hurricane Conversion
Modifying the Airfix rag wing to the 8 gun metal wing I’ve read on line and in mags where folks have taken the Hasegawa or other metal 8-gun “a” wing kits and grafted it to the Airfix fuselage, but after looking closely at my kit I realized it cannot be too difficult with my modest
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Hasegawa Spitfire Ia
This is a kit I purchased back in the early ’90’s and started shortly after, but didn’t finish until 2009. When I started it I thought it was a good kit. Well, okay the definition of “good” meant “easy to build” and “bad” meant “impossible to build”. At the time this was a good kit,
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Hobby Boss Spitfire Vb
EP312/D-K, Wing Commander Dereck Kain, Edku, Egypt, 1944 This is a model I completed back in April 2011. I purchased the Hobby Boss kit not knowing the goods or others regarding accuracy, fit, detail, et cetera. As with most Hobby Boss kits, this one had some things not quite right. I approached the build
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