Fellow modelers, we need to have a talk. Because…what the actual fuck? What’s the deal with this hobby’s fascination with German crap? A 109 here, a Panther there, I get it. In moderation, German subjects can be a nutritious part of a well-balanced modeling diet. But I frequently see it going beyond interest to fascination…
Category: WWII Axis
1/32 Trumpeter Me 262A-2a, Part IV
Part I | Part II| Part III | PART IV It’s time to wrap this puppy up! The 262 has been a long time building, and finally, in Part IV, it all comes to completion. Strap in – here we go! Picking Up In Part III, I walked through my technique for masking and painting…
1/32 Trumpeter Me 262A-2a, Part III
Part I | Part II| PART III At last, we come to the reason I cracked this kit open in the first place. When I first stumbled upon Me 262A-2a Wk.Nr. 111712, I was intrigued by the unfinished appearance of bare metal covered in a latticework of putty. I’d seen this on other late-war Luftwaffe…
1/32 Trumpeter Me 262A-2a, Part II
Part I | Part II| Part III It’s been some time since this blog has visited the long in-progress Messerschmitt Me 262A-2a. In Part I, I walked through some early test-fitting and the build-up of the cockpit. Part II is usually all about the construction, but honestly, the 262 built rather fast and uneventfully. So…
1/32 Trumpeter Me 262A-2a, Part I
Part I | Part II| Part III When the Academy F-16 build began running into roadblock after roadblock, I started searching about for something else to share the bench. And damn did I ever vacillate. Until I somehow stumbled upon this profile of a Messerschmitt Me 262A-2a: It seems this particular specimen was left abandoned…
1/32 Ki-84 Hayate, Part III – Weathering
Part I | Part II| Part III In Part I, the Frank got built up. In Part II, it got painted. Now, it’s time to move into weathering and wrap-up. Salt Weathering I knew way back when I cracked the box that I wanted to subject this build to salt weathering. This is a process…
1/32 Ki-84 Hayate, Part II – Paint
Part I | Part II| Part III | Part IV In Part I, the Frank got built up. Now, it’s time for paint. Brain Teaser From a process perspective, the Ki-84’s scheme is a rather complex one. You have the yellow leading and trailing edges on the wings. The fat red hinomarus surrounded by the…
1/32 Ki-84 Hayate, Part I
Part I | Part II| Part III | Part IV I’d originally planned to follow up my Bf 109G-4/R6 and Bf 109G-6 double-build with Tamiya’s new Corsair, but by the time I was in a place to consider making a move, approximately 7,490 F4U-1 builds were underway over at Large Scale Planes. Can’t speak for…
A Preview of Revell’s New 1/32 Messerschmitt Bf 109G-6
Revell sucks at launching new kits. While other brands have started figuring out how to market new kits on this crazy thing called the internet and others have found proxies to get the word out for them, Revell persists in being terrible at the whole game. Literally up to the day the first boxes started…
1/32 Bf 109G-4/R6 “Regia Aeronautica” Part II – Painting
Part I | Part II| Part III | Part IV With my messed up, false-start-happy modelling year, it feels like it’s been months since I’ve thrown real paint at anything. And it kind of has – the last subject to run full-bore through the paint shop was my Pz.38(t) back in early June. So it’s…
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