When The Weathering Magazine’s aircraft-focused spinoff, Weathering Aircraft, reached out to me about doing a build for an upcoming publication, the request was pretty wide open. World War II, with a focus on painting a camoflage scheme. After a few false starts, I decided to tackle a late-war SBD-5 Dauntless. The Douglas SBD Dauntless is…
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Building Kinetic’s 1/48 F-5B Freedom Fighter
It’s been a while since I’ve done any kind of build log on here, so I decided it might be worth revisiting a few past builds to walk through the process and various encounters along the way. In 2015, I was asked to build Kinetic’s F-5B Freedom Fighter for Model Aircraft magazine. I know Kinetic…
A Rocky Year…
Man. Somehow, it’s already late August. 2015 is just about two-thirds of the way done. And what do I have to show for it so far? Two completed builds. Just two. And one of them was mostly done in 2014… Granted. I’m rather happy with both..but still…two stinkin’ completions is pretty weak. WTF Happened? So….
1/35 Trumpeter T-80BV, Part 4
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | PART 4 In Part 3, I took the airbrush to the T-80BV for its distinctive camoflage. Now it’s time to cover off on markings, weathering, and final touches.
1/48 Trumpeter MiG-21F-13, Part IV
Part I | Part II| Part III | Part IV Welcome to Part IV of the MiG-21F-13 build. At the end of Part III, the Fishbed was painted, chipped, and had just had the markings masked and sprayed. Now, it’s time to continue the journey with some weathering. Wash & Strut Handling the MiG-21…
1/35 Hobby Boss T-26 Mod. 1933, Part 1
At the beginning of April, Large Scale Modeller kicked off its first armor-only group build, focused on the Eastern Front from Barbarossa to Kursk. After batting around the idea of another T-34, I decided I’d go in a different direction and build a Soviet light tank instead – the T-26. Hobby Boss – which, along…
1/35 Trumpeter T-80BV, Part 3
Welcome to the Main Event The T-80BV has been a slog of a build up to this point. Not a bad kit, by any means. Far from it, in fact. But still, the complexity and the high parts count make it rather…involving. Now, the building is (mostly) done, and it’s time for the fun. When…
1/35 Trumpeter T-80BV, Part 2
The T-80BV build continues. In Part 1, I tackled the tracks and running gear. This time around, it’s all about plowing through construction to get to the part I really enjoy – painting and weathering. If you want the TL;DR version – this kit is a slog. It has a ton of parts, many of…
1/35 Trumpeter T-80BV , Part 1
Back in December, I pulled Tamiya’s Challenger 1 from the stash on a whim. Modern armor isn’t exactly my thing, but building the Chally has certainly piqued my interest to a certain degree. So I’ve decided to keep the modern thing going with Trumpeter’s new 1/35 T-80BV kit. And, because the kit only includes…
1/48 Trumpeter MiG-21F-13, Part III
Part I | Part II| Part III At last! Welcome to this build’s big moment of truth. Making this: Look something like this: Or…similar. While I was tempted to go for 100% fidelity…the “AMS” side of the Force…I have found that stressing so much about complete accuracy doesn’t really do anything except suck the fun…
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