1/72 Fw190 A-3 Tamiya
I built this one concurrently with the Bf109G-6 I recently posted, and my experience was similar: I love these Tamiya War Bird Collection kits — and here, as with the […]
Category Archives: Aircraft
1/72 Bf109 G-6: Tamiya War Bird #90
A really nice model — like any of the Tamiya War Birds Collection that I have built — can create an interesting psychological challenge for me.
Airfix 1/72 Fw190-A8
Second of two recent Airfix Luftwaffe kits.
Airfix 1/72 Bf109G-6
This kit is another that falls into the category of “didn’t have high hopes as I was building it but love it now that it’s done.”
Hasegawa 1/72 F/A-18F Super Hornet
Although I stick these days almost exclusively to World War Two subjects, I do have a small collection of later jet aircraft, and they can make a nice change of […]
Eduard 1/72 Spitfire Mk IXe ProfiPack
For me, this kit was a perseverance project. I actually considered throwing it away without finishing it when I was about midway through. This is my story.
1/72 Mitsubishi G4M1 (“Betty”) with Ohka
Over all my years of collecting and building models, I never had a Betty… until I saw this old kit in the local hobby store. I saw the price tag of $13 (you can see the sticker in my box-top image) and thought, “Now’s my chance!”
1/72 Ki-84 Hayate (“Frank”)
In keeping with a trend in my adult-era model-building, I am pretty much doing a new version of most models I have, including this one, which I first built around 30 years ago.
1/72 Tamiya Ilyushin IL-2 Shturmovik (War Bird Collection No. 81)
The models in the 1/72-scale War Bird Collection by Tamiya are some of my favorite models to build. I find the quality to be excellent, and I appreciate the optimal […]
1/72 Airfix B-26C “Yankee Guerrilla” in Flight
I built this kit during what you might call the “medieval” period of my model-making career. It was after the Golden Age of being 10, 11 and 12 years old, […]
Schopenhauer's Workshop 