Recent Purchases (3 Viewers)

Wurger · Sep 13, 2025

A4K said:
Dzięki my friend, but looked alot better in original condition!

Brushed or airbrushed?

Viking1066 · Sep 13, 2025

The arrivals.

20250913 Nakajima Ki-43-II 1-48 FIne Molds.jpg

This was listed as being 1/48 scale and as soon as I saw the picture I snapped it up.

20250913 Nakajima KI-43 Flight Training Regiment 1-32 Hasegawa.jpg

A4K · Sep 13, 2025

Wurger said:
Brushed or airbrushed?

My first airbrush job, originally done with enamels.
Post-repair touched up by hairy brush in places with acrylics, as will be the airbrush touch ups (hopefully tomorrow).

Wurger · Sep 14, 2025

A4K said:
My first airbrush job, originally done with enamels.
Post-repair touched up by hairy brush in places with acrylics, as will be the airbrush touch ups (hopefully tomorrow).

aurelien wolff · Sep 14, 2025

Viking1066 said:
The arrivals.
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This was listed as being 1/48 scale and as soon as I saw the picture I snapped it up.
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I got the same yellow color on the ki 100 decals, I did managed to get rid of the silvering tho

Greg Boeser · Sep 15, 2025

After much hemming and hawing, I finally broke down and bought this. Paid about 3x my usual bottom feeder price, but it's the only true F4F-3 in 1:72 out there that I know of. Everything else is an F4F-4 in drag. Since converting an F4F-4 would cost about the same or more, I took the plunge.

fubar57 · Sep 15, 2025

I wasn't aware of a photo F4F-3

Donivanp · Sep 15, 2025

Greg Boeser said:
After much hemming and hawing, I finally broke down and bought this. Paid about 3x my usual bottom feeder price, but it's the only true F4F-3 in 1:72 out there that I know of. Everything else is an F4F-4 in drag. Since converting an F4F-4 would cost about the same or more, I took the plunge.
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I used to get the MPC kits build them with the gear out. Just the right size hole for a firecracker! KABOOOMMM, must'a gone though half a dozen! Great fun, to think that was fifty years ago.

Greg Boeser · Sep 15, 2025

A childhood. We hung a few model airplanes from a light pull chain in the basement and shot them with a .22. Dad was not happy to find bits of plastic all over his work bench.

Less so when we shot the spray can.
I swear I thought it was empty, Dad!

A4K · Sep 16, 2025

First of the Mistel orders in...

White Cat Models #7201: Ta 154 Mistel 'Beethoven'.

This was a July 1944 proposal by Focke-Wulf to utilise war-weary Fw 190As as Führungsflugzeuge (control aircraft) with the relatively cheap to build Ta 154 as the lower 'Grossbombe' component.

Illustrations and colour profile from 'Mistel - German Composite Aircraft and Operations 1942 - 1945', by Robert Forsyth.

fubar57 · Sep 16, 2025

Cool. It's got me staring at my Mistel by Dragon. Not an easy build I've heard

A4K · Sep 17, 2025

Which scale is that Geo? I started their 1:72 Mistel 5 a while back, haven't finished the engines yet (had to scratchbuild new ones as kit items incorrect). The Ar E-377a Grossbombe and startwagen required a bit of sanding to get smooth joins, and wing to fuselage joins filled and sanded flush (port I think slighty crooked if you don't modify the tab).
I intend to finish it off in the near future.

A4K · Sep 18, 2025

Next Mistel projects in. (both 1:72 of course)

MAC Distribution #72042: Fieseler Fi-103A-1. For an undated Fieseler Mistel proposal (Fw 190A-8/ Fi-103)