Part I | Part II | PART III | Part IV | Part V With construction complete and bench time stuck in the interminable hell of filling and sanding, I decided to shift gears on the Trumpeter P-47 and knock out the kit’s Pratt & Whitney R-2800 engine. This proved to be something of an…
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1/32 Trumpeter P-47D “French Jug”, Part II – Construction
Part I | PART II | Part III | Part IV | Part V I recently read a review of Quentin Tarantino’s latest, “Django Unchained” (excellent flick by the way), that started off by saying “this movie is a motherf****er”. Well, Trumpeter’s P-47 is also a motherf****er. It’s big, it’s bad, it’s awesome and it’s…
Review – Zvezda 1/48 Yakovlev Yak-3
A few years ago, Russian kitmaker Zvezda released a 1/48 Lavochkin La-5FN (soon followed by the earlier La-5), sparking a complete re-evaluation of their reputation and kicking off what’s become a more-or-less steady trickle of new-tool VVS subjects. Considering the dire state of the Soviet VVS in 1/48 scale, even this trickle is a blessing…
1/32 HK Models B-25J Mitchell – Part IV – Finish Out
Part I | Part II | Part III | PART IV The end is in sight! It’s amazing to think I first started this kit more than five months ago…and that it’s been back on the bench for more than two. So far, it’s been BUILT, PAINTED, and MARKED. Now comes the home stretch of weathering and seeing to all those…
1/32 HK Models B-25J Mitchell – Part III – Markings
Part I | Part II | PART III | Part IV In Part I it was built. In Part II, it was painted. Now, it’s time to give the B-25 its proper markings. The B-25 I’m building is “Bottoms Up II” of the 340th Bomb Group. There aren’t very many markings out there (yet) for the 1/32 B-25, but thankfully “Bottoms…
1/32 HK Models B-25J Mitchell – Part II – Paint
Part I | PART II | Part III | Part IV The big bomber build continues! In Part I, I picked up the pieces of a paused build and pushed through main assembly and paint prep. In Part II, it’s time to paint the beast!
1/32 HK Models B-25J Mitchell – Part I – Assembly
PART I | Part II | Part III | Part IV Rather than the usual breakdown of Cockpit, Assembly, Painting and so on, I’ve decided to break out the HK B-25 build chronologically. In part because it’s a restart, and in part because there’s so much going on with it, and with the various subassemblies, that it’d be torturous to jump…
On the Bench (Again): 1/32 HK Models B-25J Mitchell – “Bottoms Up II”
It feels weird to be writing this in early September, knowing that it won’t be published for perhaps a few months! So here’s the skinny. Back in May, I started in on HK Models’ absolutely massive 1/32 B-25J Mitchell. It’s hard to contemplate just how big this beast really is. Even the specs are misleading….
1/32 Trumpeter P-47D “French Jug”, Part I – Cockpit
PART I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V When I kicked this project off, I had every intention of going with Hasegawa’s 1/32 Jug. Until I pulled it out of the box and began fiddling with it. I’ll address why I soured on it below, but suffice to say…
On the Bench: 1/32 Hasegawa P-47D-27 in French Service
On October 1, Scale Plastic & Rail kicked off its second group build, “In Foreign Colours”. I’m still in the home stretch on my stealth build, but I’m already casting my glance toward what’s next. I’d first aimed for Trumpeter’s 1/48 MiG-15bis, until I found it wasn’t going to be anything like a walk in…