Tag: US Navy
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Done: Accurate Miniatures 1/48 TBM-1 Avenger
What a lovely kit that is! Full of detail, parts free of flash and visible ejector pin marks, and the fit is excellent. Some of the steps are a bit fiddly, especially the gun turret assembly – take your time and don’t lose your patience. I got the Italeri boxing, which lacks a bit in…
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Done: Classic Airframes 1/48 F2A-1 Buffalo
As this was my first kit of that sort, I cannot tell wether it is “typical”short-run. Having read articles about this type of kits, I was prepared for ill-fitting parts, confusing instructions and quite a bit of guesswork when it comes to positioning parts. Ok, the Buffalo had all of these, but to a very…
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Done: Hasegawa 1/48 A-4M Skyhawk
So this one took quite a while. Not so much because of the kit itself, but because I wanted to do a step-by-step photo documentation with this build. I found out it is not that easy to take pictures of all the steps, not forgetting about important milestones and keeping the “flow” of the build…
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Done: Hobby Boss 1/48 F3H-2 Demon
Almost OOB, just added a Quick Boost seat. Pretty happy with how the pre-shading came out.
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Done: Academy 1/48 F-4B Phantom II
I guess there have already been written a couple of lines about the Phantom… so here’s just the facts of that build: Almost OOB, seats from Pavla (not satisfied, too many bubbles, somehow undefined details), some cockpit details and wiring scratch, Gunze acrylics and Model Master Metalizer, kit decals. Almost three hundred of them… I…