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I finished this one about the same time as my Roden Stearman and Aeroclub Pitts Special.  Somehow in the excitement of finishing the 35 year Pitts project, I failed to post this one.  
 
I started this one in 2002 while living in San Antonio.  It sat for a long time waiting, along with the Pitts, to be finished.   
 
I used Yellow Wings decals as kit decals were badly yellowed.  
 

 




 

Nice build! The finish is exceptional! Well done.

Only 1 build at a time for me. 
Would be hard for me to keep my interest in multiple builds at the same time.
Would not have the time for more than 1 at a time either. 
I just hope when I retire next year, I will be able to finish something in under 3 months.
Actually got 3 built so far this year, so doing a little better.

That is impressive!
All of your work really shows. Well done!

Just finished my HKM DO-335A. Added HGW seat belts & a few items from Eduards photo etch set, Yahu instrument panel. Quite a bit of scratch built items added, rebuilt the rear engine deck, details added to the cockpit, wheel wells and cowling. All marking painted on, kit decals used for stencils. Painted with Xtracolor enamels. Very little weathering applied, as the DO-335 never actually saw any combat. Photo heavy. Hope you like. All comments welcome. Thanks for looking!


 
 
 










 
 
 
 

Good day, colleagues!
Now, I want to show my MiG-23MLD from Trumpeter. This model I built for my boss (he is a great collector, bye the way). I used pilot from Aires and add some wires on landing gears.
I used paints from different manufactories, that was Tamiya, Akan and Gunze.
At the end model was heavily weathered with acrilycs paints, oils and pigments. I've added imitation repainted numbers with some paint streaking.























 
Thank you!
Regards, Sergey Budyansky.

Trumpeter's 1/32nd scale A4 E Skyhawk.
I replaced the ejector seat with one from Quickboost, and I used an Eduard set to detail the cockpit.
Rest is out of the box.
Painted with Xtracolor enamels.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
Thanks for looking
 
Angelo.

A few in progress photos;

Just finished my HKM DO-335A. Added HGW seat belts & a few items from Eduards photo etch set, Yahu instrument panel. Quite a bit of scratch built items added, rebuilt the rear engine deck, details added to the cockpit, wheel wells and cowling. All marking painted on, kit decals used for stencils. Painted with Xtracolor enamels. Very little weathering applied, as the DO-335 never actually saw any combat. Photo heavy. Hope you like. All comments welcome. Thanks for looking!


 
 
 










 
 
 
 

Beautiful build as always Tolga!
Thanks for posting.
 

After their last sale, I think I'll pass on the feeding frenzy.

This is my rendition of B-25J s/n 43-36199, as it would have appeared in late spring, 1945 in the Philippines. At the time, it was serving in the 501st Bomb Squadron of the 345th Bomb Group - the famed "Air Apaches." This group was famous for transforming the B-25 from a medium altitude bomber, to a low-level attack aircraft. With eight forward-firing M2 .50 caliber machine guns in the nose, and a potent bomb load, strafer B-25s savaged Japanese shipping all throughout the Pacific campaigns.
 
This particular aircraft had its nose reconfigured to the strafer configuration in the field and it was never repainted. At some point before the reference photos, its right rudder was replaced, leaving only part of the unit insignia and tail number. Oddly, the reference photos show the vertical stabilizer to be darker than the replacement rudder, so I tried to capture that here. I recently traded a member here my glass nose version for his strafer kit, and below is the result.  Thanks, Reuben! 
 
This is the HK Models 1/32 kit with a significant number of add-ons.  I used Eduard photoetch sets for the cockpit, bomb bay, and fuselage in addition to their resin wheel kit. I also included AMS resin props, G-Factor brass landing gear, Master Model brass .50cal MG barrels, and EagleCals aftermarket decals for the kill marks, crew names, and tail insignia. All national insignia and markings are custom made on my stencil cutter.  Paints were MRP, Tamiya, and Vallejo.  Weathering was a mix of everything - MIG enamel washes & pigments, oils, silver pencils, airbrush, etc.  
 
I really threw the kitchen sink at this one.  Hope you like it. 
 

 
Reference photos taken just after a crash landing:

 

 
199 in happier times:





























































 
 
 

After their last sale, I think I'll pass on the feeding frenzy.

A few in progress photos;

Just finished my HKM DO-335A. Added HGW seat belts & a few items from Eduards photo etch set, Yahu instrument panel. Quite a bit of scratch built items added, rebuilt the rear engine deck, details added to the cockpit, wheel wells and cowling. All marking painted on, kit decals used for stencils. Painted with Xtracolor enamels. Very little weathering applied, as the DO-335 never actually saw any combat. Photo heavy. Hope you like. All comments welcome. Thanks for looking!


 
 
 










 
 
 
 

After their last sale, I think I'll pass on the feeding frenzy.

Hello all, I picked this kit up a while back and only just got round to it.....thank you lockdown. 
This is the Special Hobby kit of the Hawker Tempest, soon to be released via Revell again so I'm told. Its not a bad kit but has a few fit issue so I'm not sure if Revell will be correcting these issues, but they aren't nothing major and can easily be fixed. 
As with all my builds, the paints I use are all Gunze Sanyo.
On this build I tried to keep the weathering to a minimum and only really added some weathering to the wing rout walk way areas. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

A few in progress photos;

Just finished my HKM DO-335A. Added HGW seat belts & a few items from Eduards photo etch set, Yahu instrument panel. Quite a bit of scratch built items added, rebuilt the rear engine deck, details added to the cockpit, wheel wells and cowling. All marking painted on, kit decals used for stencils. Painted with Xtracolor enamels. Very little weathering applied, as the DO-335 never actually saw any combat. Photo heavy. Hope you like. All comments welcome. Thanks for looking!


 
 
 










 
 
 
 

A few in progress photos;

Just finished my HKM DO-335A. Added HGW seat belts & a few items from Eduards photo etch set, Yahu instrument panel. Quite a bit of scratch built items added, rebuilt the rear engine deck, details added to the cockpit, wheel wells and cowling. All marking painted on, kit decals used for stencils. Painted with Xtracolor enamels. Very little weathering applied, as the DO-335 never actually saw any combat. Photo heavy. Hope you like. All comments welcome. Thanks for looking!


 
 
 










 
 
 
 

A few in progress photos;

A few in progress photos;

A few in progress photos;

A few in progress photos;