Follow the builds on my work bench as I put together popular scale model military kits, mainly from the World War II era.
As this is my first tank build, I decided to do a “straight out of the box” build without any aftermarket parts other than replacing the tracks with MasterClub resin tracks. Since nothing extravagant happened with scratch built details for the mighty Tiger, I decided to roll the whole construction into a build thread. Wheels…
I got a little exhausted with detailing the engine so I moved on to the radiator/oil cooler duct assembly. I believe this assembly requires its own post because it is a little miny model on its own. As seen from the below instruction snippets, completing the whole assembly requires 24 parts including metal rods and…
When tasked with the job of developing a new fighter, North American Aviation combined current technologies and also came up with some new enhancements that would make the P-51 arguably one of the best fighters of all time. One of these enhancements was laminar flow airfoils, for the smooth, uninterrupted flow of air over the…
It has been a while since my last post but our house renovation has pretty much eaten up all of my free time. But with the work finally winding down I was able to get some bench time in on the Tamiya Mustang. I decided to switch gears from engine work and move on to…
The first snips of the spruce have been made and the construction of Revell’s 1/72 B-17G have begun. I started with the first steps in the instructions which are to construct the bombay. I decided to have the bombay doors in the closed position, so I constructed just what was needed to merge the bulkheads…
I finally finished up the exhaust ignition harnesses. I had a lot of trouble with these compared to the intake ignition harnesses. With the top harnesses I was able use copper wire and “fudge” the location of where the ignition lines connect to the spark plugs since they are hidden from the intake covers. However,…
I haven’t modeled since I was a young kid putting together Revell kits with Testors cement and finishing them in a couple hours. Even though I haven’t touched a kit since middle school, I have continued to follow model forums and build sites. Now, at the age of 33 and with the recent purchase of…