Tag: US Navy
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Done: Tamiya’s 1/48 F4F-4 Wildcat revisited
My very first aircraft kit after I started dabbling with wing things again, that poor fellow sat on the shelf of doom for three years. Paintwork so-so, decals silvering, small parts missing… it deserved better than that! After stripping off the old paint and fixing what was broken, on came the Gunze acrylics and some…
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Done: Accurate Miniatures 1/48 SBD-5 Dauntless
Italeri’s rebox of the Accurate Miniatures kit. Kind of a mixed bag of emotions for me… On one hand, detail is outstanding, especially in the cockpit area. On the other hand fit in some areas was less than perfect. e.g. the wing root – fuselage join was a huge party for filler, superglue and their…