An easy first biplane
I built this decades ago but I’ve hung into it as an example of where my biplane skills began.
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Yellow Wings
All the interwar yellow wing aircraft of the US Navy
Classic lines
This is my first go with the F4B. This kit always seemed to be more difficult to get, but I finally got one and it truly is a beautiful aircraft.
First Carrier Fighter
This was my first attempt at a resin biplane kit, I already had a few resin Spitfires under my belt, but this is a subject I’ve wanted to do for awhile.
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King Kong ’33
This was originally part of a group build in our local Club. Sadly the figure modeler passed away before he could finish Kong.
Upgrading an older kit
Curtiss SBC-4 Helldiver, 3-B-11, VB-3, USS Saratoga (CV-3), 1941 This is the old Matchbox kit, tarted up quite a bit with the Starfighter resin cockpit set and a set of Startfighter decals. I’d started (-ish) this kit a few years ago with the intent of making a quick build just to improve my biplane rigging
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Navy Cobra
Bell XFL-1 Airabonita, May 1940 I’ve attempted this subject in the past by modifying the old Revell P-39 and failing miserably. RS finally released one in injected kit form and I had to make it. The Subject When the US Navy issued its requirements for a new lightweight fighter to augment the F4F Wildcat and