https://youtu.be/Z_7eN5iloyk Hello and welcome back! Yes! Midway the 2019 film was the inspiration for this build! If you haven't seen the film, I can throughly recommend it! I have always had an affinity with the Dauntless and for many years wanted to find the time to build one just for me. After seeing the Dauntless …
Have you ever seen a model finished so beautifully that you find yourself saying “I want to build one just like that!” ? It happens a lot with scale modellers, but few of us admit to it! When I happened across a build of a Pacific campaign Hellcat on line years ago I was in …
All of my commissions are special. Each one takes a little piece of my personality with it and hopefully they are special to my clients and friends who now enjoy having them in their home, study or office. Then there are the once in a lifetime builds, the ones that are so special, so important …
As regular readers will already know, my favourite aircraft of all time is the Supermarine Spitfire. I have built many models of the legendary fighter over the years but one variant has eluded me-The PR Mk.XI. Until now that is! Due to no manufacturer producing any Spitfire PR Mk.XI's in 1/48 or 1/32 scale one …
The Hawker Sea Hurricane is one of those aircraft that has been relatively unloved by the aircraft enthusiast masses and scale modellers alike. Sure, there have been kits released in 1/48 scale in the last couple of decades from Italeri and Airfix and they sold pretty well-but how often do we see one finished? And …
In World War II the North American P-51 Mustang distinguished itself with its superb fighting power and air superiority over the skies of Europe and later the Pacific. The P-51D being the most famous mark which is loved by veterans and aircraft enthusiasts the world over. After WWII came the conflict in Korea and the …
Just as the A-1H Skyraider, NE/572 “Paper Tiger II” was being shot off the deck of the USS MIDWAY, a 1MC message came from the bridge, ‘What the hell was on 572’s right wing?’ Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction........... According to Squadron Historian Holt Livesay, on 4 November on the last mission of the …
Hello! I love US Navy aircraft and regular readers of my blog will notice there are a lot of US Navy builds being rolled out from my hangar this year! I have built models of F4U Corsairs before but I never had one in VF-17 markings until now. I had an old Tamiya 1/48 F4U-1A …
It's stange sometimes what inspires me to build a subject, in this case it was seeing a new release decal sheet being reviewed on Hyperscale some years ago. One of the aircraft featured was a Grumman F5F-5K Hellcat painted in a striking Red/Dayglow Orange scheme which I instantly fell in love with! This build …
Youtube has a lot to answer for! Whilst at home during the Covid19 lockdown I began watching videos about scale modelling one morning. A particualr favourite channel of mine, "Doogs Models" featured a series about building Tamiya's 1/48 P-48M in the striking colours of the 63rd Fighter Squadron. Doogs build of the Tamiya kit is …
Continue reading The original American Hotrod: Republic P-47M Thunderbolt
THE SCALE MODEL HANGAR 