Some more pictures of my Messerschmitt Bf-109G-6

Found today some more pics of my long ago built 1/48 Hasegawa's Bf-109G-6 flown by Georg Amon.

Another masterpiece by slava_trudu

Yesterday, I've found a latest masterpiece by Alexander Nevzorov (aka slava_trudu) - 1/72 Bell XF-6A. The model is built from Airmodel's resin kit. Apart from extra detailing and building this kit, Alexander has added a fullu natural metal finish to the ready model covering it with foil. The article is on Russian, but pics speak for themself.

Military Aviatos of The Perished Empire

Here's the book I've recently purchased - "Military Aviation of The Perished Empire" (that's mine free translation from Russian "Военлеты погибшей империи"). Highly recommended to all WW1 and also Russian aviation fans:

My favourite Jugs - P-47 Thunderbolts!

P-47 Thunderbolt photo gallery can be found here. Here're some of my favourite:










I guess enough for today...

Now that's INTERESTING ;)

Lucky pilot gets to see an almost naked babe... I wonder why he has that sceptical eye... ;)

And that is MAD!

More Hellcat WW2 flavour

Found some more pics of World War 2 Grumman F6F Hellcat pics here. Finally I've also found Royal Air Forces Hellcats! Enjoy!

PS. Pay good attention to the weathering that can be seen on some of the photos ;) And, of course, masking and painting process shown here :)))

Another Fw-190A-8 cockpit picture

One photo that I forgot to attach. The canopy is in place and is masked with Tamiya supplied kit's masks, so here's the last pics oof the canopy opened:

Armour plates that can be seen in this pics were later removed and replaced with thin plastic sheet scratchbuilt ones.

FW-190A-8 Sturmbock in progress

Well, just wanted to share some pics of my 1/48 Tamiya FW-190A-8/R8 "Rauhbautz". The fuselage and wings glued together. I've made some modifications to the kit:

1. Replaced armour plates around the pilot's place on the fuselage.
2. Antena mast on the fin tip was scratchbuilt - Tamiya or a shop managed to break the parts while transporting - just antenna fin tip was broken.
3. Oleos one the wheel legs were replaced with aluminium tubing.
4. Original Tamiya's drop tank was replaced with Eduard's (THANX TO JESPER!!) - and some minor scratchbuilding involved.
5. I'm in the begining of rivetting process... ;/

Anyway, here're some pics of the mentioned parts:


Feel free to comment!

American aircraft legends and flying freaks photos

Alexey Matveenko shared a great source of American aircraft legend photos. Some of them are legends, some are "flying legends" - and I really love those odd planes. Anyway, less talk - more action. Here's the link and here're some of my favourites (including some pics of Hellcat ;):


That's what I call a "flying freak", although I'd be very happy to build the model of such "freaks":

That's what I call a "PLASTIC FEVER"!

This a truelly inspiring post from Hyperscale Plastic Pics forum. This guy builds a fleet of World War 1 Fokker Dr.1 triplanes! That can be easily called "Plastic FEVER" :) I really respect that.

Not just another Messerschmitt Bf-109 video

Yesterday I had a chat with colleague-modeller Jesper and he told me about the video with 2 flying Messerschmitt Bf-109s. Which are flying nowadays! I've seen lost of World War 2 footage, but I really wanted to see flying Bf-109! Here it is:



The first to take off seems to be Bf-109K-4 or Bf-109G-10 (or G-14) while the second seems to be Bf-109G-2 (or F-4 - I'm not an "Experten" to judge). Anyway, this one is really great video!

Spitifre video

To go on with World War 2 in colour topic I post a very good quality Spitfire video. One thing I don't know - which version of Spitfire can be seen in this video?

Collection of WW2 Colour photos

Small update today - I've found a great collection of colour World War 2 pics here. Here're some of my favourites:

P-47 Thunderbolt Assembly Part 4

The final P-47 Thunderbolt (Razorback) assembly part. Video covers all the bits & pieces neeeded to build a true Thunderbolt. The most interesting is the part of the video on attaching tail section. I wonder if they do the same way nowadays..



And the last video is for all your P-47 Thunderbolt fans - "Jugs" in colour. Delicious!! ;)

P-47 Thunderbolt Assembly Part 3

The next P-47 Thunderbolt video assembly guide shows how to deal with landing gear, wheel wells and wheel well doors. Watch carefully! ;)

P-47 Thunderbolt Assembly part 2

Today we're going to proceed with the P-47 Thunderbolt (Razorback) 1/1 assembly :)

Attaching wings to the fuselage and checking engine connections.

P-47 Thunderbolt Assembly (part 1)

You gotta know that feeling when you open fresh plastic model box - your eyes spark and you feel like you want to sit down and build the model right away. You feel like a child with his birthday gift. At least I mostly feel so :)

But what if you receive a bigger scale model? Not 1/32 or even 1/16 - but a 1/1? And not a model or copy, but a real aircraft fighter? Take a minute to think of it..

These guys here did assembling real P-47 Thunderbolt on a everyday basis:

The world of wonderful plastic model of Asao Shirai

I'll go on sharing "know-how" videos I've found.

You might have seen wonderful and inspiring works of Asao Shirai on Hyperscale:

- Hasegawa's 1/72 TBF/TBF-1C Avenger
- Hasegawa's 1/72 TBM-3S2 convertion from TBF/TBF-1C Avenger
- Hasegawa's 1/72 scale Nakajima Ki-44 Shoki (Tojo)
- Hasegawa 1/72 scale P-2V-7 Neptune
- Hasegawa's 1/72 scale T-1B

After you've seen the works of Master - see the Master himself (it's in Japanese, but video of the techniques and tricks speak for themself):

GRUMMAN XF6F HELLCATS

Here're some one of a kind good quality Grumman XF6F Hellcat pics. For all you WW2 USAF fans out there!






Click here to see some other Hellcat pics. You'll find more different Grumman aircrafts pics here.

Painting and weathering interior

Very interesting video I've found today on eBay. It features Brett Green (from Hyperscale) tips & advices of how to paint interior (wheel well bay doors in this case).

Everyone has its onw way of painting, detailing and weathering plastic models. But it's very interesting to hear expert's advices.