Getting very close to the finish line now. Glare in the photo above makes it look like the pilot is wearing a “bone dome.” Funny.…
No, it’s not a Tamiya kit. But I used a lot of Tamiya paint on it. The basic technique here is to paint the model…
I’m not brush painting the invasion stripes. In fact, I’m omitting them entirely. Some might call this “chickening out” but I prefer to call it…
I’ve given the model two coats of Vellejo Metal Color (Aluminum). I’m still learning to apply this material with a brush, and because I’m basically…
I noticed at one of my favorite websites that Eduard has re-released what must have been a good seller for them. A reboxing of Hasegawa’s…
Assembling an old model kit (and a lot of new ones) involves carefully aligning the parts, joining them together with a slow acting liquid cement…
My pilot-painting skills need further development. So do my photography skills. The first thing you need to know to paint a guy is what he’s…
We’re sailing into uncharted waters now boys. Building with the wheels up removes most of the stuff about model building that I don’t like. No…
Here’s Monogram’s old 1/72 P-51B, the kit by which all other kits were measured in 1967. It’s still pretty good. I cut off the prop…
This image is from an old Scale Modeler. From 1971. It contains an article on building the old Monogram P-51B in 1/48 scale into a…