With each new build, I try to push myself outside of my comfort zone (RELATED: Where the Magic Happens) in at least one area. Test a technique. Try a new paint. Experiment a little. But every so often, a build comes along that’s more than that. That kicks me into an entirely new level of…
Category: WWII Allied
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…
On the Bench: Trumpeter 1/32 MiG-3 “Obnazhennyy”
For most people, summertime conjures up visions of sun and surf, of late days, sweltering heat, kickass movies, fireworks and cookouts. It conjures those visions for me, too. But it also conjurs visions of spiders. For some reason, my bench becomes the equivalent of a small town Dairy Queen for an unending parade of tiny…
1/32 Trumpeter P-47D “French Jug”, Part VI – The Long Goodnight
Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V |PART VI When we last left the Jug, the French markings had been applied and the paint lift from the masks had been corrected. So let’s move into the long, arduous process of finishing this bastard off. Gloss coat and stencils…
1/32 Trumpeter P-47D “French Jug”, Part V – Masks + Pain
Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | PART V In Part IV, the French Jug got its stripes (and its Olive Drab): Now, it’s time for the main markings. When I first set out to build a French Jug, I had my sights set on a completely different P-47 that…
1/32 Trumpeter P-47D “French Jug”, Part IV – Paint
Part I | Part II | Part III | PART IV | Part V Finally! After first starting this kit waaaay back at the start of November, three months later, it’s finally ready for paint. And with the wife and kids out of town for the weekend, I decided to buckle down and get it…
1/32 Trumpeter P-47D “French Jug”, Part III – Engine
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…
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…
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